Rattlin' Roarin' Willie

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RATTLIN’ ROARIN’ WILLIE (Trad.)
Another offering from the collection of Robert Burns. The "Willie" referred to in this song may be Mr. William Smellie, who printed the first Edinburgh edition of Burns' poems.

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Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie
O, he held to the fair
For to sell his fiddle
And buy some other ware
Parting with his fiddle
The salt tear blin't his e'e -
Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie
You're welcome hame to me

Willie, come sell your fiddle
Come sell your fiddle so fine!
Willie come sell your fiddle
And buy a pint o' wine!'
If I were to sell me fiddle
The world would think I was mad
Many a rantin’ day
Me fiddle and I have had

As I came by Crochallan
I cannily keekit ben
Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie
Was sitting at yon boord-end
Sitting at yon boord-end
Among good company
Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie
You're welcome hame to me

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from The Tracks We Leave, released February 24, 2015

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