# Five sonsg (sic)/The Traquire Shepherds

The Traquire Shepherds,
O Shepherd the weather looks misty and changing will you show me over the bills of Traquire, O yes, gentle stranger, where ye yon been ranging for such a gentleman walking is (illegible text) I've been in the forest amang the braw lases, I've sung with each shepherd on ilka green hill, And I have a mind to give over my rambling, since in every thing in it I have had my will, am fear'd you have some bonny lassie beguiled, you're the finest young gentleman I ever saw, Your heeks like the roses, your hair's like the gow’ I'm afraid you & them have been breaking the law O gentle shepherd have you got a wife yet? or you live single, spray tell me the truth, For if you live single, you're sure to live happy, for the blooming young lasses are of such a rut O I'm single, for all the maids in the forest, I mind them no more than the leaf of the tree, Save one pretty girl to whom I have promis'd to marry, as soon as my stock it is free. She's handsome and witty, she's charming and ⟨pretty⟩ she's just like a swan in a new fallen pool. She's modest and witty she'll soon make me happy I liked her ay since I was at the school. O shepherd, you're foolish to bind to a woman, indeed you will rue it and that very soon, For if she proves constant, you'll scarce find another one under the moon. As for me, I'm no ways amind for to marry, but kiss all the fair maids tha: come in my way, ​For the very last winter between Etrick and Barra I kiss'd more than twenty that never said me nae here was ae bonny lass, I chanc'd for to meet, she liv'd with her mammy, she had nae mair ava, An that very night I went for to see her, O it was lucky, the old wife was awa. She made me a bed and she bade me go to it, she gave all I asked without ever a frown. ⟨She⟩ kiss’d me and blest me before that we parted, and promis'd to see me next winter in town. what is the name of that bonny young lassie, O what is her name, and what age might she be {{reconstruct|Her name it is Jeanny, she lives in Plantanse, a tall pretty girl about seventeen. ⟨My⟩ curse light upon you and he that begat you, and all your ancestors ye limb of the de'il, ⟨For⟩ if ye've destroy'd her ye villain, here's at ye, for that's just the lassie that I like so weel. Shepherd your threat’nings are very (illegible text) she'll pass for a maiden wi ony but you, ⟨You're⟩ welcome to wed her and free to enjoy her, {{illegible}or unto such as her I now bid adieu (illegible text)ith do you think that I am so simple, before I wad wed her I'd put out her breath, ⟨And⟩ if I could see her when this fury is on me with this hazel rung I would finish you baith. Jeanie, O Jeanie with patience look round ye, we kenna the looks nor the voice of your Jean. Jeanie, I thought that your mind had been changed, (illegible text)ta thirty lang {{illegible]}cks since I saw you and twa, ⟨borrowed⟩ this clea ling frae one of the neighbours, never had a wish you would ken use (illegible text). ⟨Jeanie⟩, Jeanie, why did you sae tease me, I'll no be myfel' these eight days and mair, ​ Come into my arms before I forgi'e you and gie's all the kisses you hae for to spare, And now he is wed on his own lovely Jeanie, and now they do live on the hills of Traquire. Now he is wed on twa own lovely Jeanie, the langer he kens her likes her the mair.