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... Jamie loo'd me weel , and he sought me for his bride , But saving a crown he had naething beside ; To make that crown a pound , my Jamie gade to sea , And the crown and the pound were baith for me . He had nae been awa a week but only ...
... Jamie loo'd me weel , and he sought me for his bride , But saving a crown he had naething beside ; To make that crown a pound , my Jamie gade to sea , And the crown and the pound were baith for me . He had nae been awa a week but only ...
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... Jamie back , But the wind it blew high , and the ship it was a wrack ; The ship it was a wrack , why didna Jenny die ... Jamie's wraith , for I coudna think it he , " Till he said , " I'm come back for to marry thee . " O sair did we ...
... Jamie back , But the wind it blew high , and the ship it was a wrack ; The ship it was a wrack , why didna Jenny die ... Jamie's wraith , for I coudna think it he , " Till he said , " I'm come back for to marry thee . " O sair did we ...
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... Jamie , for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gudewife to be , For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me . * Mr. Pinkerton , after observing that none of the " Scotch amatory ballads , " as he remembers , " are written by ladies ...
... Jamie , for that wad be a sin ; But I'll do my best a gudewife to be , For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me . * Mr. Pinkerton , after observing that none of the " Scotch amatory ballads , " as he remembers , " are written by ladies ...
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... bonnie Mary . THE BLACK EAGLE . THIS song is by Dr. Fordyce , whose merits as a prose writer are well known . JAMIE COME TRY ME . THIS air is Oswald's ; the song mine . THE LAZY MIST . THIS song is mine . The H 2 99 THE BLACK EAGLE. ...
... bonnie Mary . THE BLACK EAGLE . THIS song is by Dr. Fordyce , whose merits as a prose writer are well known . JAMIE COME TRY ME . THIS air is Oswald's ; the song mine . THE LAZY MIST . THIS song is mine . The H 2 99 THE BLACK EAGLE. ...
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... JAMIE COMES HAME . THIS tune is sometimes called , There's few gude Fellows when Willie's awa . - But I never have been able to meet with any thing else of the song than the title . By yon castle wa ' , at the close of the day , I heard ...
... JAMIE COMES HAME . THIS tune is sometimes called , There's few gude Fellows when Willie's awa . - But I never have been able to meet with any thing else of the song than the title . By yon castle wa ' , at the close of the day , I heard ...
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amang auld lang syne baith ballad Blythe bonie lass bosom braes Burns CALIFORNIA LIBRARY canna cauld Child Maurice COCKPEN crookit horn cry'd dear dearie dinna e'er Edinburgh Ewie fair Findlay frae Fy let gallant gang gangrel grows bonnie wi gude gypsie laddie hame heart Highland Hughie Graham Jamie Johny Jolly Beggars kebars lady laird lassie Leader-Haughs Lord maun meikle merry mony morning Nansy ne'er never night O'er the moor old song owre poem Rob Roy ROBERT BURNS rue grows bonnie sang Scotland Scots Scots Musical Museum sing snaw sodger laddie stanza sweet sword thee thou thro thyme Tibbie tune UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA verse warn Watty weel whare wife Willie wither'd Woo'd and married Yarrow ye'll ye're young
Popular passages
Page 127 - For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o...
Page 136 - It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee ! We are na fou, &c.
Page 112 - MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Page 112 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Page 105 - Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Page 127 - And surely I'll be mine; And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne.
Page 43 - When I upon thy bosom lean, And fondly clasp thee, a' my ain, I glory in the sacred ties That made us ane wha ance were twain ; A mutual flame inspires us baith, The tender look, the melting kiss ; Even years shall ne'er destroy our love But only gie us change o
Page 167 - T do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee. Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak, had power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.
Page 250 - CHORUS. A fig for those by law protected ! Liberty's a glorious feast ! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Page 230 - The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry. The scene, indeed, is laid in the very lowest department of low life, the actors being a set of strolling vagrants met to carouse and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge ale-house.