Green Grow The Rashes: Toast to the lassies

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03xnnj3

Green grow the rashes, O,
⁠Green grow the rashes, O,
The lassies they hae wimble-bores,
⁠The widows they hae gashes, O.

In sober hours I am a priest;
A hero when I’m tipsey, O;
But I’m a king and ev’ry thing,
When wi’ a wanton Gipsey, O.

Twas late yestreen I met wi’ ane,
An’ wow, but she was gentle, O!
Ae han’ she pat roun’ my cravat,
The tither to my pentle [penis] O.

I dought na speak – yet was na fley’d
My heart play’d duntie , duntie, O;
An’ ceremony laid aside,
I fairly fun’ [found] her cuntie, O.

CHORUS
Green grow the rashes oh (1)
Green grow the rashes oh
The sweetest hours that e’re I spent
Were spent among the lassies oh
I
There’s nought but care on every hand
In every hour that passes oh
That signifies the life of man
and twere na for the lassies oh
II
The wordly race may riches chase
And riches still may fly them oh
And tho’ at last they catch them fast
Their hearts can ne’er enjoy them oh
II
But gie me a canny (2) hour at e’en
My arms about my dearie (3) oh
And warly (4) cares and warly men
May a gae (5) topsy-turvy (6) oh
IV
For you sae douce you sneer at this
You’re nought but senseless asses oh
The wisest man (7) the world e’er saw
He dearly loved the lassies oh
V
Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han’ she try’d on man,
An’ then she made the lasses, O.
FOODNOTES
read in Standard English 
1) rasches=rushes; there is also a Christmas song with the same title. Many believe that the word “green grow” is the basis of the Spanish word “gringos” with which the Mexicans called Americans during the nineteenth-century wars. According to the “Diccionario Castellano” of 1787 the term was used in Malaga to address a person who spoke ill Spanish and in particular in Madrid was synonymous with Irish. Most likely the term gringo comes from the Spanish”griego”. In English it says in fact “it’s Greek to me” while in Spanish “hablar en griego”.
2) canny=quiet
3) dearie= deary
4) war’ly=warlike.
5) gae = go
6) topsy-turvy (or “tapsalteerie”)= confused, or lackingorganization; upside down:
7) Salomon
There’s some say I’m foolish, there’s more say I’m wise,
For love of the women I’m sure ‘tis no crime;
For the son of King David had ten hundred wives
And his wisdom is highly recorded. (in The Limerick Rake see)

Bill Adair