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Coming Through the Rye

Tune--"_Coming through the rye._"

[The poet in this song removed some of the coarse chaff, from the old
chant, and fitted it for the Museum, when it was first printed.]

I.
    Coming through the rye, poor body,
      Coming through the rye,
    She draiglet a' her petticoatie,
      Coming through the rye.
    Jenny's a' wat, poor body,
      Jenny's seldom dry;
    She draiglet a' her petticoatie,
      Coming through the rye.
II.
    Gin a body meet a body--
      Coming through the rye,
    Gin a body kiss a body--
      Need a body cry?
III.
    Gin a body meet a body
      Coming through the glen,
    Gin a body kiss a body--
      Need the world ken?
    Jenny's a' wat, poor body;
      Jenny's seldom dry;
    She draiglet a' her petticoatie,
      Coming through the rye.

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