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III. LOVE : HUMOROUS
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No. 185. There's a youth in this city.
Tune : Niel Govu's lament. Scots Musical Museum, 1790, No. 258.
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There's a youth in this ci - ty, it were a great pi - ty That he from
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our las - sies should wan-der a - wa ; For he's bon-ie and braw, weel-
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His coat is the hue o' his bon - net sae blue, His feck - et is
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white as the new - driv-en snaw, His hose they are blae, and his
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shoon like the slae, And his clear sil - ler buck-les, they daz - zle us a'.
[There 's a youth in this city, it were a great pity
That he from our lasses should wander awa ;
For he's bonie and braw, weel-favor'd witha',
An' his hair has a natural buckle an' a'.]
His coat is the hue o' his bonnet sae blue,
His fecket is white as the new-driven snaw,
His hose they are blae, and his shoon like the slae,
And his clear siller buckles, they dazzle us a'.
For beauty and fortune the laddie 's been courtin ;
Weel-featured, weel-tocher'd, weel-mounted, an' braw ;
But chiefly the siller that gars him gang till her,
The penny 's the jewel that beautifies a' ;
There 's Meg wi' the mailen, that fain wad a haen him,
And Susie, whase daddy was laird o' the ha' ;
There 's lang-tocher'd Nancy maist fetters his fancy ;
But the laddie's dear sel he lo'es dearest of a'.