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(219) Page 199 - She's fair and fause
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Sbe'5 fair anb fause.*
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1. She's fair and fai'.se that cans - es my smart, I lo'ed her meikle and lang ;
2. Wha - e'er ye he that wo - msm love, To this be nev - er blind;
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1, bro - keu her vow, she's bro - ken my heart, And I may e'en go hang !
2. fer - lie it is, tho' fio - kle she prove, A wo - man has't by Idnd.
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2. be ower mei-kleto gi'en thee mair — I mean an an - gel mind.. .
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* This air is preserved by Oswald in liis Calelonian Poclcct Cmnpanion, vol. iv. It appears there under the title of " The Lads of r.ieth."
Some versions of this melody have D|J instead of DJ In bars 2, 3, 6, 7, 14 and 15. Burns wrote the verses "She's fair and fause " for tlie
fourth volume of the Scots Musical Museum, issued 1V92.

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