The Highland Plaid (4)/Dame Durden
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DAME DURDEN.
Dame Durden kept five serving girls,Το carry the milking pail,She also kept five labouring men,To use the spade and flail.
Twas Moll and Bett, and Doll and KateAnd Dorothy Draggle-tail,
And John, and Dick, and Joe, and Jack,And Humphry with his flail.
Twas John, and Dick, and Joe and Jack,And Dorothy Draggletail;And Katty was a charming girl,To carry the milking pail.
Dame Durden in a morn so soon,She did begin to brawl,To rouse her servant maids and men,She did most nobly call.
'Twas on the morn of Valentine,When birds began to prate,Dame Durden's servant maids and men,They all sat down to mate.
FINIS.