{"id":1045,"date":"2020-05-15T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:53:01","slug":"lads-o-the-fair-brian-mcneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Lads O&#8217; The Fair ( Brian McNeill )"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Come, bonnie lass, lie near me, an&#8217; let the brandy cheer ye<br>For the road frae Fife tae Falkirk&#8217;s lang an&#8217; cauld an&#8217; wet an&#8217; weary<br>My trade, it is the weavin&#8217; in the bonnie toun o&#8217; Leven<br>An&#8217; we&#8217;ll drink a health tae the farmers&#8217; dames wha&#8217;ll buy our cloth the morn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see them a&#8217;, the lads o&#8217; the fair<br>Lads frae the Forth an&#8217; the Carron water<br>Workin&#8217; lads an&#8217; lads wi&#8217; gear<br>Lads wha&#8217;d sell ye the provost&#8217;s dochter<br>Sodjers back frae the German wars<br>Peddlers up frae the border<br>An&#8217; lassies wi&#8217; an eye for mair than the kye<br>At the trysting fair at Falkirk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come, Georgie, haud the pony, for the path is steep and stony<br>An&#8217; it&#8217;s three lang weeks frae the Isle o&#8217; Skye and the beasts are thin an&#8217; bony<br>We&#8217;ll tak the last o&#8217; the siller an&#8217; buy oursels a gill or two<br>An&#8217; drink to the lads wha&#8217;ll buy our kye in Falkirk toun the morn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staun hear an&#8217; I&#8217;ll show ye, there&#8217;s the toun below ye<br>But we&#8217;d best bide here in the barn the nicht, for the nightwatch dinna know ye<br>My brother, he&#8217;s a plowman, an&#8217; I&#8217;m for the feeing now, man<br>An&#8217; we&#8217;ll drink tae the price o&#8217; the hairvest corn in Falkirk toun the morn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wark o&#8217; the weaver&#8217;s over, likewise the days o&#8217; the drover<br>An&#8217; the plowboy sits on a tractor noo, too high to see the clover<br>The warkin&#8217;s no sae steady, but the lads are aye still ready<br>Tae drink a health tae the working man in Falkirk toun the morn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come, bonnie lass, lie near me, an&#8217; let the brandy cheer yeFor the road frae Fife tae Falkirk&#8217;s lang an&#8217; cauld an&#8217; wet an&#8217; wearyMy trade, it is the weavin&#8217; in the bonnie toun o&#8217; LevenAn&#8217; we&#8217;ll drink a health tae the farmers&#8217; dames wha&#8217;ll buy our cloth the morn Chorus You can see them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lads O&#8217; The Fair ( Brian McNeill )&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}