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Yin Tae A Hunner

Yin twa an three
Coontins nae bother tae me
Fower, five an sax
A‛ll coont ocht at ye a
Seiven echt an nine
Aa the nummers A hae mine
Ten, eleiven, twal
Cud coont fae a cud cral
There‛s thirteen, fowerteen an fifteen
Saxteen, seiventeen an echteen
There‛s nineteen, twonty an mair
But shair A dinnae care
Thurty, fowerty an fifty
Hi, am I naw quare an nifty
But at saxty, seiventy an echty
It‛s getting a weethin wechtie
At ninety an a hunner
A‛ll stap-afore A scunner.

By Willie Drennan

© William Drennan, 2004
Reproduced with permission from Willie Drennan, Wee Book: Stories, Poems and Songs of a Wandering Ulster-Scot, (Ullans Press, 2004)