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Tkro’ lonely wilddejarts and hills I'll roam,
To wild birds and ddies HI make my moan;
All riches and grandeur I now will disdain,
Thro‘ the world HI wander for my darlingfwatn
Hi* breathis more fweet than the rose* in June,
His eyes are like diam*nds>or orb* of the moon;
His flein's like clear amber, just from the mine;
He‘s up to perfection, my own darlir.g fwain !
* My love he is proper,he‘s tali,& he1* trim;
There is none in the world that can equal him;
All forrow & trouble HI endure without pain.
Was I fure to meet with my darling fwain 1
My father he thought then his pointfor to gain.
By partinghis daughter from herdarlingfwain;
But yet, for to vtx him, 1 ever will be
Jamie1* true St constant young GragalMachree.
the bunny beds of roses.
A* I was a-walkrng one morning in i'lay.
The fmall bird* were tinging delightful&gay.
There I with my true-love did oft Iport & play
Dow-n amongst the bonny beds of roses.
My pretty brottn girl, come fit on my knee.
There's none in the world I can fancy but thee.
Nor will I ever change my old love for a new.
So my pretty brown girl do not leave me.
Tkro’ lonely wilddejarts and hills I'll roam,
To wild birds and ddies HI make my moan;
All riches and grandeur I now will disdain,
Thro‘ the world HI wander for my darlingfwatn
Hi* breathis more fweet than the rose* in June,
His eyes are like diam*nds>or orb* of the moon;
His flein's like clear amber, just from the mine;
He‘s up to perfection, my own darlir.g fwain !
* My love he is proper,he‘s tali,& he1* trim;
There is none in the world that can equal him;
All forrow & trouble HI endure without pain.
Was I fure to meet with my darling fwain 1
My father he thought then his pointfor to gain.
By partinghis daughter from herdarlingfwain;
But yet, for to vtx him, 1 ever will be
Jamie1* true St constant young GragalMachree.
the bunny beds of roses.
A* I was a-walkrng one morning in i'lay.
The fmall bird* were tinging delightful&gay.
There I with my true-love did oft Iport & play
Dow-n amongst the bonny beds of roses.
My pretty brottn girl, come fit on my knee.
There's none in the world I can fancy but thee.
Nor will I ever change my old love for a new.
So my pretty brown girl do not leave me.
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| Description | A favorite song. To which is added A new love song, The bonny beds of roses, and, The broom of the Cowden Knows. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2823(13) |
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| Description | Over 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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