The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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Yet a' the lads they smile at me,
When comin' through the rye.
Amang the train there is a swain
I dearly lo'e mysell
But whaur his hame or what his name,
I dinna care to tell.
Gin a body meet a body,
Comin' frae the town,
Gin a body greet a body,
Need a body frown ?
Ev'ry lassie has her laddie,
Nane, they say, hae I I
Yet a' the lads they smile at me.
When coming through the rye.
Amang the train there is a swain
I dearly lo'e mysell
But whaur his hame, or what his name,
I dinna care to tell.*
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THE YEAR THAT'S AWA.
MR DUNLOP.f
Tune— The Year thafs axva.
Here's to the year that's awa
We will drink it in strong and in sma'
And here's to ilk bonnie young lassie we lo'ed,
While swift flew the year that's awa.
And here's to ilk, &c.
Here's to the sodger who bled,
And the sailor who bravely did fa'
* An improved and purified modern version of an old song, which Burns
inserted, with some variations of his own, in the fifth voUune of the Musical
Museum.
\ Late Collector at the Custom-house of Port Glasgow, and father of Mr
Dunlop, author of The History of Fiction.
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