The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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I gat it frae a young brisk sodger laddie,
Between St Johnston and bonnie Dundee.
O, gin I saw the laddie that gae me 't
Aft has he dandled me upon his knee ;
May heaven protect my bonnie Scots laddie,
And send him safe hame to his baby and me.
My blessings upon thy sweet wee lippie !
My blessings upon thy bonnie ee-bree !
Thy smiles are sae like my blythe sodger laddie,
Thou's aye be the dearer and dearer to me !
But I'll bigg a bowir on yon bonnie banks,
Where Tay rins wimpling bye sae clear ;
And I'll cleid thee in the tartan sae fine.
And mak' thee a man like thy daddie sae dear.*
JENNY'S BAWBEE.
[earliest verses.]
TvN'E—Jenny'' s Baxvlee.
And a' that e'er my Jenny had,
My Jenny had, my Jenny had
And a' that e'er my Jenny had,
Was ae bawbee.
There's your plack, and ray plack,
And your plack, and my plack.
And my plack and your plack,
And Jenny's bawbee.
We'll put it a' in the pint-stoup,
The pint-stoup, the pint-stoup,
We'll put it in the pint-stoup.
And birle 't a' three.f
* The second verse of this song is by Burns. The first is old.
t From Herd's Collection, 1776.
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