Brian McNeill
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For still I love you best of all and we never shall be parted
We've won this far together and we'll finish what we started
You're the devil's only daughter
But to leave you now would leave me broken-hearted
So I'll tell you now I love you best of all.
Noo I've had a drink or two, just enough to tell you true
So if you'd keep frae interruptin' me again
You're quarter saint and quarter witch and half cantankerous auld bitch
So haud yer tongue while I'm trying to explain
For it's time we fell to talking, you and I
For every time I take a dram I hear you curse
That you saved me frae the gutter - but then I kept you frae the pawn
And it seems to me the bargain could be worse.
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God knows I've been untrue - how many times I wish I knew
You'd be as well tae count the stars up in the sky
But if the truth be there tae tell you bring them tae my bed yersel'
So you can laugh whene'er you hear me tell the lie
You've watched me singing songs to painted jades and faithless whores
And I've watched you and I've wondered at the game
For you know the score damn fine, between the lassies and the wine
I'll be back without a penny tae my name.
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I hae stolen frae your eyes every tear you ever cried
And I've gathered them tae see what they might bring
For the turning o' the year can win the winter o' your tears
To the promise o' a harvest in the spring
So though you're old and bruised and battered, sit ye down upon my knee
And we'll take another glass before we go
Put your head upon my shoulder, lay your back against my breast
And hae patience while I rosin up your bow.
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