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	192 TONE-POETRY OF ROBERT BURNS
	No. 215. I bought my wife a stane 0 lint. Tune: The wearypundo^> tow Scots Musical Museum, 1792, No. 350.


	Chorus. The weary pund, the weary pund, The weary pund o' tow ! I think my wife will end her life Before she spin her tow. I bought my wife a stane o' lint As gude as e'er did grow, And a* that she has made o' that Is ae poor pund o' tow. There sat a bottle in a bole Beyont the ingle low; And ay she took the tither souk To drouk the stourie tow. Quoth I : ^l For shame, ye dirty dame, Gae spin your tap o' tow!' She took the rock, and wi' a knock She brak it o'er my pow. At last her feet—I sang to see't!— Gaed foremost o'er the knowe, And or I wad anither jad, Til wallop in a tow.