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The Bonny Wee Window 
The Bonny Wee Window 
Now there was a young lass and her name it was Nell In a snug little cot wi' her granny did dwell Now the hoose was bit wee and the window was less It had but four lozens and yin wanted gless 
cho: 'Twas a bonny wee window, the handsome wee window The bonniest wee window that ever I saw. 
Now it happened one night, Granny went to her bed And Johnny, the blithest young lad that Nell had Came ower the hill, his true-love to see In under the window right planted got he
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Now the twa lovers hadna got very much said When Granny cries : Nelly, come unto your bed I'm comin', dear Granny, young Nelly did say So, fare thee well, Johnny, come back the next day
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Now Nelly, dear Nelly, dinna tak it amiss Before I gang away you maun grant me a kiss So to get a bit kiss, Johnny put his heid through For what wouldna love make a fond lover do?
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It's twa kisses got Johnny and sweet were the smacks But for his dear life could he get his heid back He wrugg-ed, he tugg-ed, hc bawled and he bang When Nelly's loud laughter all through the hoose rang
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Granny she heard the noise, jumped oot on the floor And seizin' the poker made away for the door And at poor Johnny's back sic a thump she laid on Another like that would have broke his back-bone
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Johnny, reekin' wi' heat and smartened with pain He wrugg-ed, he tugg-ed with might and wi' main Till the lintels gaed wa' and the window did break 
But, O, the best half o't stuck fast to his neck 'Twas a etc. 
From Folksongs of Britain and and Ireland, Kennedy Collected from John Goodfellow, 1954 DT #479 Laws O18
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