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3 met four cbaps ^on birke amang*
JENNY'S BAWBEE.*
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first,
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but back
weel dead.
Maroh'd
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law -
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A Thing
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the laird gae kame
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* A fragment of the old song is given in Herd's Scots' Songs, 1776, vol. li., p. 204. Boswell's verees were published anonymously in 1803.
He shortly afterwards presented them to George Thomson for his collection of Scottish melodies. Sir Alexander Boswell was a son of the
biographer of Dr. Johnson. He was bom in 1775, and died in 1323. The air is derived from an old Scottish dance tune. ^