Sae Will We Yet
On Autumn Harvest AH 002
Old Songs & Bothy Ballads - Here's a Health to the Company
Jock Duncan sings:
A fine convivial song composed by Walter Watson, a farmer in Lanark (ca. 1790) and included in his Poems and Songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect (Glasgow, 1853), later printed on Poets Box song sheets and in Ord’s Bothy Ballads (GD 3:552). Jock remembers it as a favourite song of Willie Allen of Tifty Croft and retired foreman at Cameloun (from 1904 to 1908 ) who ‘aye got fu’ and sang the song in the bar at Ellon Market or on the bus back home.
1: Come cheer up ma cronies and gie us your crack,
Let the wind take care of this life on it's back;
Oor herts to despondency we never will submit,
For we've aye been weel provided for and sae will we yet.
 Sae will we yet, oh sae will we yet,
Ah, we've aye been weel provided for and sae will we yet.
2: Let the miser delight in the hoarding o wealth,
Since he's nae the soul to enjoy it himself;
The bounty of providence cares new for every day,
Let us journey on through life, let us live by the way.
Let us live by the way, let us live by the way,
As we journey on through life, let us live by the way.
3: Let's fill us a tanker o nappy gweed ale,
For to cheer up oor herts and enliven the tale;
We'll aye be the happier the langer we sit,
For we've drunk together mony's the time and sae will we yet
Sae will we yet, oh sae will we yet,
Ah, we've drunk together mony's the time and sae will we yet.
4: Success tae the fairmer and prosper his ploo,
Reward his eyedent toiling aa the year through;
In seed-time and harvest we ever will get,
For we've lippent aye to Providence and sae will we yet.
Sae will we yet, oh sae will we yet,
Noo we've lippent aye to Providence and sae will we yet.
5: Let the glass keep its course and go merrily roon,
For the sun is tae rise and the meen it gings doun;
Fan the hoose be rinnin roun aboot it’s time enough tae flit,
When we fell we aye got up again and sae will we yet.
Sae will we yet, oh sae will we yet,
Oh when we fell we aye got up again and sae will we yet. |
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