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I Wadna Hae a Baker

 1. I wadna ha'e a baker, ava, 'va, 'va, I wadna ha'e a baker ava, 'va, 'va,

 For he sits and he cracks, And he burns a' his baps, And I wadna ha'e a baker ava, 'va, 'va.

 2. I wadna ha'e a wiever, ava, 'va, 'va, I wadna ha'e a wiever, ava, 'va, 'va,

 For he sits and he girns, And he raivels a' his pirns, And I wadna ha'e a wiever, ava, 'va, 'va.

 3. Aw wadna be a weaver be ony, O, Aw wadna be a weaver be ony, O, For he sits an' he girns, an' ca's the creeshie pirn, Aw wadna be a weaver be ony, O.

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 (1 - 2) Rymour Club Misc. II (1912-19), 27; (1) from Mintlaw, Buchan; (2) from Forfar, "possibly another verse." [Whence SC (1948), 149 (no. 268).]
 (3) Jas. Cockburn, Selkirk, in SNQ IV.3 (Aug. 1890), 54. A var. on the 3rd line: For he sits on his lume, an' he girns at the mune. 
MS oct97