If I were ye, an ye were me, and that made three, or four?
Why, we'd sip tea, an me-lo-dy, o'er that made three, and four!
Four or three, maid? that and me were! ye an ye were... 1 If.
note: Christy told me she thought this might have been a poetic account of a romantic conversation. It was intended to be a conversation between an old man and a little girl.