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Burn's Selkirk Grace is about the only thing I've tried to memorise; I'll check afterwards how far away I was:

  Some hae meat and cannae eat,
  And some wid eat that want it,
  But we hae meat and we can eat,
  And sae the Lord be thankit



Not too far off, but it turns out there are several versions.

From http://www.rampantscotland.com/poetry/blpoems_grace.htm:

  Some hae meat and canna eat,
     And some wad eat that want it;
  But we hae meat, and we can eat,
     Sae let the Lord be thankit.
The last line is often varied to read-

  And sae the Lord be thankit




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