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Show me the way to Stirling town,
the place where it doth stand?
Follow your nose, the tanner he said,
keep the gallows on your right hand:

And when that you come to Stirling town,
take care you be not hang'd, says the Tanner.
Will ye go to the ale-house with me, says the King,
and drink both beer and wine;

And when the reckoning comes to be paid,
I'll pay both yours and mine.
The de'il's in the follow, the Tanner he said;
I think ye are gone mad!

For where there's one penny in your pocket,
there's a guinea in mine to be had.
The King pull'd out a green horn from his side,
and blew it wonderous shrill,

Till four-and-forty bolted Knights
came riding out-o'er the hill.
Fetch a collar to me, says the King,
go fetch a collar to me,

I'll make this Tanner as good a Knight
as rides in my company.
O wo is me, the tanner he said,
that ever I was born!

For instead of a collar I'll get a halter!
I fear I'll be hang'd the morn.