Broadside ballad entitled 'Bonnie Brier Bush'

Transcription

BONNIE BRIER
BUSH.

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

There grows a bonnie brier bush in oor kail-yard;

An' sweet are the blossoms on't in oor kail'-yard,

An' abint that brier bush a lad and lass were heard,
Rich busy, busy cootrn' in oor kail-yard.

In days o' mair simplicity sic things were aften

dared,
An' mony a heart's been lo'ed an' won in some kail-

yard,
But noo they're a' sae pridefu' grown their beauty

needs a guard,

An' lassies thraw their mou's at love in oor kail-
yard,

There's some wha, think wi' pen an' ink true love
can be declraed:

They'll find shat passion wi' a pen is uncolly im-
paired;

I dinna like the love, my lads, that's written on a
card?

No! I'd rather hae't by word o' mou' in some kail-
yard,

When Adam in a singles tate of blessedness despaired,
His coortn' was begun, I ween in his kail-yaird,
We'll follow thee first o' men, nor be by fashion sc-
ared,
As ye began we'll end the plan in some kail-yard,

A LIST   OF   POPULAR   SONGS

ARTFUL JOE

ANNABLE LEE

ANNIE,   DEAR,   GOODBYE

APPLES, FOUR-A-PENNY

A HORSE CHESNUT, OR A CHESNUT

HORSE

ALL AMONG THE HAY
AULD TOON O' AYR
ABYSSINIAN GOLD

BRAKE IT GENTLY TO MY MOTHER
BISCUIT VAN

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