And then, I began to be fair sure that the wife and the bairn I'd a son to be thinkin' for by then--wad ne'er be wanting.
It's time, I'm thinkin', for all the folk that's got a wife and a bairn or twa, and the means to care for them and a', to be looking wi' open een and open minds at all the talk there is.

Shall we be changing everything in this world?
Shall a man no ha' the richt tae leave his siller to his bairn?
Is it no to be o' use any mair to be lookin' to the future?
I wonder if the folk that feel so ha' taken count enow o' human nature.

It's a grand thing, human nature, for a' the dreadfu' things it leads men tae do at times.

And it's an awfu' persistent thing, too.
There was things Adam did that you'll be doing the day, and me, tae, and thousands like us.

It's human tae want to be sure o' whaur the next meal's coming frae.