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1. 0, my love is like a red, red rose, That's new - ly sprung in June ; 0, my
2. Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear. And rocks melt wi' the sun, And
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* This is an old song, altered and extended for The Scots' Museum by Burns. Jolmson gives two air", ne^Jx^r of which is now sung to
Burns' verses : the one invariably used is the one adopted here. It is a modern version of " Low doun in tlie BrMffiP-" an old tune which seems
to have been first published by Oswald, in his Caledonian Pocket Companion, under the title of " My love's in theBroom."