Twa Recruiting Sergeants 
Twa* recruiting sergeants cam frae* the Black Watch.
Tae* markets and fairs some recruits for tae catch.
But a'* that they listed was forty and twa.
So list, bonny laddie and come awa'.*
Chorus: And it's oxer the mountains and over the main.
Through Gibraltar tae France and Spain.
Get a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen"* your knee.
Enlist, bonny laddie and come awa' wi'* me.
O laddie, you dinna ken* the danger that you're in
If your horses was tae flag and your ousen* was tae rin*.
This greedy auld* fairmer* widna* pay your fee.
So list, bonny laddie, and come awa' wi' me.
Chorus:
For it's in by the barn and oot* by the byre.
That greedy auld fairmer thinks ye'll never lire.
It's a slavery job o' low degree. "
So list, bonny laddie, and come awa' wi' me.
Chorus;
Wi' your tattie poorms*, and your meal and kale*.
Your soor sow an soorms* and your ill-brewed ale.
Wi' your buttermilk and whey*, and your breid fired ra'*
O list, bonny laddie, and come awa'.
Chorus:
O laddie if ye hae got a sweetheart and a bairn*.
You'll easily he rid o' that ill-spun yairn*.
Twa rattles o' the drum and that'll dae* it a'.
So list, bonny laddie, and come awa'.
Notes: *Twa - two; *Frae - from; *Tae - to: *A" - all
*Awa' - away; *Abeen - hanging near: *Wi" - with;
*Dinna ken - don't know: *Ousen - oxen; *Rin - run;
*Auld fairmer - old farmer: *Widna - wouldn't;
*Oot - out; *Tattie poorins. etc. - really healthy, vitamin-
filled and fiber-laden primitive, rural Scottish victuals,
eg potato skins, grits and cabbage, fermented oat-husk
porridge, lite beer, watery yogurt-like stuff and
incompletely-baked bread: *Hae - have: *Bairn - child:
*Yairn - yarn; *Dae - do
- Seamus Kennedy
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Seamus Kennedy in Concert
- The Liar Time: 2:57
- Down in the Coalmine Time: 2:30
- Murphy & the Snails Time: 3:39
- Hard Times Time: 3:20
- The Drover's Dream Time: 2:24
- The Writing of 'Tipperary' Time: 5:14
- TWA Recruiting Sergeants Time: 3:45
- The Nuns & the Devil/Johnny & the Bishop Time: 1:31
- The Widow & the Fairy/The King of the Fairies Time: 3:28
- Rose Time: 0:43
- The Mouse Time: 1:22
- The Wearing of the Green/The Rising of the Moon Time: 3:41
- Moses-Ri-Tooral-I-Ay Time: 2:01
- Take Her in your Arms Time: 3:16
- Scottish People Time: 2:45
- The Greatest Love/A Bottle of the Best Time: 2:42
- Look at Maggie Now Time: 3:01
- City by the Lagan Side Time: 2:34
- Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go Time: 4:39
- The Parting Glass Time: 2:01
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