Return o' the Gallowgate lad.
[Dundee] : Poet's Box, Dundee,
[1880-1900?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
'This popular song can always be had at the Poet's Box, Dundee'.
First line reads: I'm as happy as a queen, and the day gangs alang / Like an hour in the month o' May, / Said young Maggie Benson, wi'a face fu o' smiles, / For my lad's come back the day. / Aye, and mony's the lang weary nicht I've passed / Since my love bade me gudebye; / I never thocht I'd leeve to see this happy day, / For I've done nocht but cry.
Ballads, English