Jock sent a letter to Dunbar sayin' Cherlie meet me gin ye daur
it's I'll learn ye the erts o' war if ye meet me here in the morning.
Cherlie read the letter upon he drew his sword its scabbard from
sayin' follow me my merry men and we meet Johnie Cope in the morning.
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Hey, Johnie Cope are you walking yet? And are your drums a-beating yet?
If yoo were walking I would wait tae gang tae the coals in the morning.
On the morrow when he did rise, he look'd between him and the skies
He saw them wi' their naked thighs, which fear'd him in the morning.
O then he flew into Dunbar, crying for a man of war;
He thought to have pass'd for a rudtic tar, and gotten awa in the morning.
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Sir Johnie into Berwick rade, just as the devil had been his guide;
Gien him the warld he would na stay'd to foughten the boys in the morning.
Says the Berwickers unto Sir John, o what's become of all your men;
In faith, says he, I dinna ken, I left them a' this morning.
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