{"id":392,"date":"2020-04-24T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=392"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:37:23","slug":"i-wish-theyd-do-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"I Wish They&#8217;d Do It Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was born of Scottish parents one day when I was young<br>That&#8217;s why the Scottish accent is my native tongue<br>I was a pretty baby, my mother she did vow<br>The girls all ran to kiss me &#8211; I wish they&#8217;d do it now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was only six months old the girls would handle me<br>They&#8217;d clutch me to their bosoms and bounce me on their knees<br>They&#8217;d rock me in my cradle if I made a row<br>They&#8217;d tickle me and cuddle me &#8211; I wish they&#8217;d do it now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At sixteen months as fine a lad as ever could be seen<br>The girls would all follow me when I went to the green<br>They&#8217;d make a chain of buttercups, place it on my brow<br>And they&#8217;d roll me in the clover &#8211; I wish they&#8217;d do it now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eastern girls would go with me to swim when it was mild<br>Down to the river we would go, splash around awhile<br>They&#8217;d throw the water over me, duck me like a cow<br>Then they&#8217;d rub me nice all over &#8211; I wish they&#8217;d do it now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well it&#8217;s awful lonely for a lad to live a single life<br>I think l&#8217;ll go to the dance tonight and find myself a wife<br>Oh have got six brindled pigs, likewise one fat sow <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they&#8217;ll be plenty love and bacon for the girl who loves me now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the girl who loves me now for the girl who loves me now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;ll be plenty love an bacon for the girl who loves me now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born of Scottish parents one day when I was youngThat&#8217;s why the Scottish accent is my native tongueI was a pretty baby, my mother she did vowThe girls all ran to kiss me &#8211; I wish they&#8217;d do it now When I was only six months old the girls would handle meThey&#8217;d clutch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Wish They&#8217;d Do It Now&#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-392","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\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}