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Awa’ he went to the mill-dam, and there gae her a duckie O,And ilka chiel that had a stick, play’d thump upon her backie O.
And when he took her hame again, he did hing up the sackie O,At her bed-side as I heard say, upon a little knaggie O.
And ilka day when she raise up, in naething but her smockie O,Sae soon’s fine look’d him in the face, she might behold the sackie O.
Now all ye men both far and near, that have a drunken toutie, O,Duck ye your wife in time o’ year, and I’ll lend you the sackie O.
The wife did live for ninteen years, and was fu’ frank and couthie O;And ever since she got the duck, she never had a drouthie O.
At last the carline chanc’d to die, and Tamie did her burie O,And for the public benefit, he did gar print the curie O.
And this he did her motto make, “Here lies an honest luckie O.“Who never left the drinking trade, “until she got a duckie O.
Glasgow, Printed by J. & M. Robertson, Saltmarket, 1803.
