Broadside ballad entitled 'Bonnie Braes o' Airlie'

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BONNIE BRAES 0' AIRLIE.

Dedicated to the Countess of Airlie.

This Popular Song can always be had at the Poet's Box,
224 Overgate, Dundee.

Bonnie sing the birds in the bright English valleys,
Bonnie bloom the flowers in the lime-sheltered alleys,
Golden rich the air, with perfume laden rarely
But dear far to me the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie,
But dear far to me the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie.

Winding flows the Cam, but it's no my ain loved Isla.
Rosy decked the meads, but they're no like dear Glenisla,
Cloudless shines the sun, but I wish I saw it fairly,
Sweet blinkin' thro' the mist on the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie.
Sweet blinkin' thro' the mist on the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie.

Thirsting for a name I left my native mountains,
Drinking here my fill at the pure classic fountains,
Striving hard for fame, I've wrestled late and early,
An' a' that I might rest on the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie,
An' a' that I might rest on the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie.

Yonder gleams the prize for which I've aye been longing,

Darkness comes at ween, my stuggles sad prologing;

Dimly grow my een, an' my heart is breaking sairly,
Wae's me ! I'll never see the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie,
Wae's me ! I'll never see the Bonnie Braes o' Airlie.

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Can always be had at   the Poet's Box.

The Midnight Express.
The Wanderer.
Fine Big Woman.
Down Among the Coals.
Sweet Seventeen.
The Auld House.
Mother's Parting Gift.
Comrades.
Death of Nelson.

Does thy Heart beat true to me ?
Don't put my Father's Picture

up for sale.
The Iron Horse.
The Little Green Leaf in the

Bible.

Down by the River I strayed,
The Night Maloney Landed in

New York.

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