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1. Gin a bo-dy kiss a bo -dy, Need a bo-dycry? Il-kalassie has her lad-die,Nane they say ha"e I ; Yet
2. Gin a bo-dy kiss a bo-dy,Needa bo-dy tell? Il-kalassie has her lad-die,Ne'er a aneha'e I; But
3. Gin a bo-dy greet a bo-dy, Need a bo-dy gloom? Il-kalassie has her lad-die,Nane they say ha'e I ; But
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1. a' the lads they smile to me, When comin' thro' the rye.
2. a' the lads they smile on me. When comin' thro' the rye.
3. a' the lads they lo'e me weel, Andwhatthewauram I?
4. a' the lads they lo'e me weel. And what the waur am I?
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* The first three verses of this song With its air appeared in Johnson's Scot's Musical Jluseum (No. 418). The fourth verse seems to have
been added by some public singer. Mr. John Dunlop. Collector of Customs, Port Glasgow, and Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1794, wrote verses
beginning; *'0h. dinna ask me gin I lo'e tliee," which enjoved much popularity during the first half of the century. The following is the
first verse from the song in the Museum (No. 41T). Altliougli the verses are marked there as being "written for this work by Robert Burns,"
we are inclined to believe that this verse is a fragment of some old traditionary song : —
Comin' thro' the rye, poor body,
Comin' thro' the rye.
She draigl't a' her petticotie .
Com!n' thro' the rye.
Chorus. — Oh, Jenny's a' weet. poor bodie,
Jenny's seldom dry ;
She draigl't a' her petticotie
Comin' thro' the rye.
In The Musiml Bepositnry, published' in Glasgow in 1 V99— two years after vol. v. of the J/ffpeum— the same song appears witha/ourift
verse, which also smacks of an earlier period. Burns' name is not mentioned in connection with the song in the Repository, which is headed :
''Original words to the foregoing tune." The theory that by the '' rye." some stream or ford is indicated, is quite erroneous. In every version
«f the song which we have seen, the word has been written rye— not with a capital'R. The state of a rye-fiild in damp weather would be
quite sufficient to reduce the "petticotie" of a careless voung lady to a "draigl't" condition. A version of the tune is given in Gow's
Collection (Bk. I., p. 19), 1Y84, under the title of" The Miller's Daughter."