Not to give you a clue would be rotten, ive given
you a few! "They could be up and could be down". You should
be standing on cassies
Hal o' the Wynd, he taen the field
Alang be the skinklin Tay:
And he hackit doun the men o' Chattan;
Or was it the men o' Kay?
Whan a' was owre he dichetd his blade
And steppit awa richt douce
To draik his drouth in the Skinner's Vennel
At clapperin Clemmy's house.
Hal o' the Wynd had monie a bairn;
And bairns' bairns galore
Wha wud speer about the bloody battle
And what it was fochten for.
"Guid-faith! My dawties, I never
kent;
But yon was a dirlin day
Whan I hackit doun the men o' Chattan;
Or was it the men o'
Kay?"
William Soutar
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