T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Walking Down the Highland Town
Anonymous(A New Scotch Song from Pills to Purge Melancholy, c. 1707) |
WALKING down the Highland Town, | |
| There I saw Lasses many; | |
| But upon the Bank in the highest Rank, | |
| Was one more gay than any: | |
| I Look’d about for one kind Face, | 5 |
| And I saw Billy Scrogy; | |
| I asked of him what was her Name, | |
| They call’d her Catherine Logy. | |
| I travelled East, and I travelled West, | |
| And I travelled through Strabogy; | 10 |
| But the fairest Lass that e’er I see, | |
| Was pretty Catherine Logy. | |
| I Travelled East, and I Travelled West, | |
| And Travel’d through Strabogy; | |
| But I’d watch a long Winter’s Night, | 15 |
| To see fair Catherine Logy. | |
| I’ve a Love in Lamermoor, | |
| A dainty Love in Leith, Sir; | |
| And another Love in Edinborough, | |
| And twa Loves in Dalkeith, Sir. | 20 |
| Ride I East, or Ride I West, | |
| My Love She’s still before me, | |
| But gin my Wife shou’d ken aw this, | |
| I should be very sorry. | |