X: 1
T: TODLEN BUTT, AND TODLEN BEN
O: 1811
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1811, p.20-22
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87686121
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Gmix
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w: When I've a sax-pence un-der my thum,* Then
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w: I'll* get cre-dit in ilk-*a town: But
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w: ay when I'm poor they bid me gang by;* O!
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w: po-ver-ty parts good com-*pa-ny.*
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w: Tod-*len hame,* tod-*len hame, Coud-na
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w: my love come tod-*len Hame?*
W:2.Fair-fa' the gudewife, and send her good sale,
W:  She gi'es us white bannocks to drink her ale,
W:  Syne if that her tippenny chance to be sma',
W:  We'll take a good scour o't, and ca't awa'.
W:    Todlen hame, todlen hame,
W:    As round as a neep come todlen hame.
W:
W:3.My kimmer and I lay down to sleep.
W:  Wi' twa pint-stoups at our bed feet;
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W:  And ay when we waken'd, we drank them dry:
W:  What think ye o' my wee kimmer and I?
W:    Todlen butt, and todlen ben,
W:    Sae round as my love comes todlen hame.
W:
W:4.Leez me on liquor, my todlen dow,
W:  Ye're ay sae good-humour'd when weeting your mou;
W:  When sober sae sour, yell fight wi' a flee,
W:  That's a blyth sight to the bairnies and me,
W:    When todlen hame, todlen hame,
W:    When round as a neep ye come todlen hame,
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