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My Nannie's charming, sweet, and young ;
Nae artfu' wiles to win ye, :
May ill befa' the flattering tongue
That wad beguile my Nannie, !
Her face is fair, her heart is true,
As spotless as she's bonnie, ;
The opening gowan wat wi' dew
Nae purer is than Nannie, 0.
A country lad is my degree,
And few there be that ken me, :
But what care I how few they be ?
I'm welcome aye to Nannie, 0.
My riches a's my penny fee,
And I maun guide it cannie, :
But warld's gear ne'er troubles me,
My thoughts are a' my Nannie, 0.
Our auld gudeman delights to view
His sheep and kye thrive bonnie, ;
But I'm as blythe that hauds his plough,
And has nae care but Nannie, 0.
Come weel, come wae, I carena by,
I'll tak' what heaven will send me, ;
Nae ither care in life hae I,
But live and love my Nannie, 0.
" My Najjote, 0." Mr. Stenhouse characterizes the melody as a " fine old air," which it certainly is. It is
one of the best of our Scottish melodies. The air, with other words, was published in the Orpheus Caledonius,
1725. The verses here given were written by Burns in his earlier days, and were composed in honour of a ser-
vant-girl, Agnes Fleming, at Calcothill, near Lochlea.* Burns composed them expressly for the air of " My
Nannie, ;" though in song No. 581 of Johnson's Museum, they are adapted to a different and very inferior
melody. The Lugar, alluded to in the song, is a river in Ayrshire, which takes its rise in the Cumnock lakes,
and discharges itself into the river Ayr, at Barskimming. See Museum Dlustrations, vol. i. p. 91 ; and Burns'
Works, by Allan Cunningham, vol. iv. p. 10.
• This word is generally spelled Lochlie in the district, and is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable.