The Canary/O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet
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O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet.
O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet,
Mally's modest and discreet;
Mally's rare, Mally's fair,
Mally's every way complete.
As I was walking up the street,
A barefit maid I chanced to meet,
But O the road was very hard
For that fair maiden's tender feet.
Mally's meek, &c.
Mally's modest and discreet;
Mally's rare, Mally's fair,
Mally's every way complete.
As I was walking up the street,
A barefit maid I chanced to meet,
But O the road was very hard
For that fair maiden's tender feet.
Mally's meek, &c.
⟨It⟩ were mair meet, that those fine feet
Were weel lac'd up in silken shoon,
And 'twere mair fit that she should sit
Within yon chariot gilt aboon.
Mally's meek, &c.
Were weel lac'd up in silken shoon,
And 'twere mair fit that she should sit
Within yon chariot gilt aboon.
Mally's meek, &c.
Her yellow hair beyond compare,
Comes trinkling down her swan-like neck,
And her two eyes, like stars in skies,
Wad keep a sinking ship frae wreck.
Mally's meek, &c.
Comes trinkling down her swan-like neck,
And her two eyes, like stars in skies,
Wad keep a sinking ship frae wreck.
Mally's meek, &c.