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<?/. SAY, BONNY LASS.

O! Say, bonny lafs, will you lie in a barrack.
And marry a foldier, and carry his wallet;
O ! fay, wou’d you leave baith your mither and
daddy,
And follow the camp with your foldier laddy ?
O ! fay, wou’d you leave baith your mither and
daddy,
And follow the camp with your foldier laddy?
O! yes, bonny lad, I could lie in a barrack,
And marry a foldier, and carry his wallet;
I’d neither alk leave of my mither or daddy.
But follow my deareft, my foldier laddy.
Oi fay, bonny lafs, wou’d you go a campaign¬
ing,
And bear all the hardlhips of battle and famine
;
When wounded and bleeding, then would’ft thou
draw near me,
And kindly fupport me, and tenderly cheer me ?
01 yes, bonny lad. I’ll think naething of it.
But follow my Henry, and carry his wallet;
Nor dangers, nor famine, nor wars can alarm me.
My foldier is near me, and naething can harm me.
But fay, bonny lafs, when I go into battle.
Where dying men groan, and loud cannons rattle ?
O ! then, bonny lad, I will fliare a’ thy harms.
And ftiould’ft thou be kill’d, I will die in thy arms.