This song for tenor and piano accompaniment has words by an anonymous poet for its text. In a skipping triplet, Scottish folksong style, this jolly song tells of the wild partying following a wedding day, about "a concert of fiddle-de-dees", all the "lads in the parrish" taking the day off from ploughing the fields. An imitation of bagpipes in the bass accompanies the line where "the serving-men gave me a fuddling cup, and I did carry it away, away !". The music gets drunker and more dreamily harmonic and complex on the following lines - "The smith of the town his liquor so took That he was persuaded the ground looked blue And I dare boldly to swear on a book Such smiths as he there are but a few ...". And the statement that " Full many a maid was laid on the lip ..." is a gentle, rubato passage, immediately followed by the robust ending "I'll say no more but so give o'er."

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