WHEN FORTUNE TURNS THE WHEEL



Come fill the cup, let's drink about

This nicht, we'll merry be

For friendship and for harmony

Likewise my comrades three

To meet yence mair some other nicht

My secret joy reveal

For I now maun stray so far away

Til fortune turns the wheel



Nae love, nor gold, nor dress I'll take

My estimate of man

But when I meet a friend in need

To stretch a helping hand

To him I'll drink, for him I'll fetch

To him my mind reveal

And friends we'll be, whatever way

Blind fortune turns the wheel

And it's of a lovely lassie

Aye, it's her I'll justly blame

When dark misfortune frowned on me

She denied she knew my name

But friendship by remorse its passed

To her I'll never kneel

I'll sweethearts find, both true and kind

When fortune turns the wheel



O ye dowie hill o Caledon

Likewise sweet Coquetdale

Where friendship binds the firmest ties

And love tells the sweetest tale

Here's to my friends and to my foes

Ye'll ken I wish them well

That we all may meet some other nicht

When fortune turns the wheel



But it's some of my pretended friends

If friends ye may them call

They falsely turned their back on me

When mine was at the wall

Yet in a glass I'll drink their health

Ye'll ken I wish them well

That someday I may pay the debt

When fortune turns the wheel



sung by Lou Killen and Ray Fisher

@Scots

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