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Poem by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne The Heiress Gaelic Air — "Mo Leannan Faluich." I'll no be had for naething, I'll no be had for naething, I tell ye, lads, that's ae thing, So ye needna follow me. Oh! the change is most surprising; Last year I was plain Betty Brown; Now to my hand they're a' aspiring, The fair Eliza I am grown! But I'll no be had for naething, I'll no be had for naething, I tell ye, lads, that's ae thing, So ye needna follow me. Oh! the change is most surprising,— Nane o' them e'er look'd at me; Now my charms they're a' admiring, For my sake they're like to dee! But I'll no be had for naething, I'll no be had for naething, I tell ye, lads, that's ae thing, So ye needna follow me. The laird, the shirra, and the doctor, And twa-three lords o' high degree; Wi' heaps o' writers I could mention, Surely, sirs, it is no me! But I'll no be had for naething, I'll no be had for naething, I tell ye, lads, that's ae thing, So ye needna follow me. But there is ane, when I had naething, A' his heart he gied to me; And sair he toiled, to mak' a wee thing, To gi'e me when he cam frae sea. Sae I'll no be had for naething, I'll no be had for naething, I tell ye, lads, that's ae thing, So ye needna follow me. And if e'er I marry ony, He will be the lad for me; For, oh, he was baith gude and bonny, And he thocht the same o' me. Sae I'll no be had for naething, I'll no be had for naething, I tell ye, lads, that's ae thing, So ye needna follow me. Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne's other poems:
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