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Ayrshire Melodist,
My aim dear Jean.
Of a’ the airts the win* can blawi
I dearly like the west.
For there the bonny lassie lives.
The lass that I love best:
Tho’ wild woods grow, and rivers row,
Wi’ mony a hill between,
Baitb day an’ night my fancy’s flight
Is ever wi’ my Jean.
I see her in the dewy flowers.
Sae lovely, sweet an’ fair,
I hear her voice in ilka bird,
Wi’ mirth that charms the air?
There’s not a bor.ny flower that springs
By fountain, shaw, or green,
Ner yet a bonny bird that sings.
But minds me o’ my Jean.
Upon the banks o’ flowing Clyde,
The lasses busk them braw.

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Ayrshire melodist, or, The muses' delight
DescriptionA choice collection of Scotch songs.
ShelfmarkL.C.2853.A(17)
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland
DescriptionOver 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides.
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