The Rambling Siuler (imagine an accent over the u) Oh the highland lands are come to town And landed in head waters. The colonel fell for a pretty little girl, The farmer's only daughter. The general bet five thousand pounds The colonel wouldn't dress up in a beggars gowns, Would she travel the world around and round, Would she go with the rambling siuler. Oh the colonel started out next day, Dressed in beggars clothing. It wasn't long til he found his way To the farmer's lowly dwelling, "Oh farmer shelter me for the night, I'll sleep in your barn until daylight, Take pity on a beggar's awful plight, God help a rambling siuler." The farmer said, "The night is wet, You can come to the kitchen fire." The colonel says to the serving maid, "It's you I do admire, Would you leave them all and come with me, Leave them all my stor mo chroi" "What a lusty beggar you must be, Away with the rambling siuler!" The farmer and his servants all They fell into loud laughter When who came tripping down the stairs But the farmer's only daughter, She'd two bright eyes like the morning skies Soon as the beggar he did her spy She fairly caught his roving eye, "She'll be mine," says the rambling siuler. And the farmer and his servants all They went out to the byre. He put his arm around her waist As they sat by the kitchen fire, He put his hand upon her knee, Unto her gave kisses three, Says she, "How dare you make so free And it's you but a rambling siuler." When supper it was over They made his bed in the barn Between two sacks and a winnow cloth for fear that he take harm At twelve o'clock that very night She came to the barn, She was dressed in white The beggar rose in great delight, "She's mine," says the rambling siuler. And he threw off his beggar's clothes, He threw them against the wall. He stood the bravest gentleman That was among them all Will you look at my locks of golden hair Under this sooty old hat I wear "I'm a colonel bold I do declare, and none but a rambling siuler." "And I wouldn't for one hundred pounds That you and I be found here Would you travel around the whole night long And go with the rambling siuler," So it's off to the general's house they've gone Great is the wager he has won And away to the sound of the fife and the drum She's away with the rambling siuler. DS oct97
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