Merry fairs of Falkirk/Johnny Bluster's wife
Johnny Bluster’s Wife
Tune-Willie ⟨Castle⟩ dwalt on Tweed.
Johnny Bluster dwalt on Tweed
The place they ca'd (illegible text)tony;
Johnny was a jailer gude,
Nane could wield (illegible text) like Johnny,
Lizie Painck was Johnny's wife,
An' fi(illegible text)y Mary was her ⟨mother⟩;
Sic a wife as Johnny had,
I wadna g'e a button for her.
Johnny was ance half in love,
His fancy was by beauty haunted;
Heaven shone in Johnny's e'e—
But as the heaven Johnny wanted:
For Johnny courted Lizie ⟨Painck⟩,
'Cause Lizie Painck she had the siller,
⟨Sic⟩ a wife as Lizie Painck,
I wadna gi'e a button for her.
Lizie's face was like the moon,
Her shoulder's maik as broad as Samson's;
Her very picture's like the figu
That hings ⟨aboun⟩ auld Robin Samson's.
But de'i a prin does Johnny care,
Were Lizie like the witch of Endor;
Johnny sittens on her gear-
He wadna gi'e a button for her.