| Though we’re called a people of serious mind,
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| 'Tis often we dance, 'tis often we sing.
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| And bein' as human as all human-kind,
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| We aren’t superior to havin' a fling.
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| I’m taking the fling of a lifetime.
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| The fling of a husband and wife-time.
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| A-when I a-went romancing
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| I a-gave no thought to any wedding ring.
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| Every bonnie lassie was
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| My highland fling.
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| A-no chance was I chancing
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| I' a-m not the man ya dangle on a string.
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| I was canny waitin' for the
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| Real, real thing.
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| A-though I danced each girl in a twist and a-twirl
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| Ney one would do.
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| And I went a-my way 'til the fatal day
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| In the fling I was flung a-with you.
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| Oh
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| Now my heart is prancin'
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| A-gay as a lark and happy as a king.
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| The years I’ll weather, in the hame on the heather,
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| With my one and only highland fling.
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| I thought you were fallin' for Andy MacPherson.
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| Ney, ney. |
| He became an impossible person.
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| But what about you and that Connie MacKenzie?
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| She talked when I putted and drove me to frenzie.
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| But what of the lad known as Bobby MacDougal?
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| It pays to be thrifty, but he was too frugal.
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| And weren’t ya daft about Megan McDerrmot?
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| I tasted her cooking. |
| T’would make me a hermit.
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| How jealous I was of McDonald McCutcheon.
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| His neck had a head on, but there wasn’t much in.
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| And what about Sandy?
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| His hands were too handy.
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| And wasn’t there a Jenny?
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| I’m not wantin' any
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| I’m not wantin' any but you.
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| When I went a-dancin'
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| No special lad I was encouragin'.
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| Every lackly laddie was
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| My highland fling.
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| No glance I was glancin'.
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| Well, nothin' really worth a-mentionin'.
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| Hopin', watchin', waitin' for the
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| Real, real thing.
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| Though they spoke me soft in the moonlit oft',
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| Ney one would do.
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| 'Til it came to pass to this lucky lass
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| In a fling I was flung with you.
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| Oh
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| Now my heart is prancin'.
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| Nothin' about ya I’d be alterin'.
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| The years I’ll weather, in the hame on the heather,
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| With me one and only highland fling. |