The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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Let friends forget, as I forgive,
Thy wrongs to them and me, Mary.
So then, fareweel I Of this be sure,
Since you've been false to me, Mary
For a' the world I'd not endure
Half what I've done for thee, Mary.*
WHEN SHE CAM BEN SHE BOBBIT.
Tune— TAe Laird o" Cockpen,
O WHEN she cam ben she bobbit fu' law,
O when she cam ben she bobbit fu' law,
And when she cam ben, she kissed Cockpen,
And syne she denied that she did it at a'.
And wasna Cockpen richt saucy witha',
And wasna Cockpen richt saucy witha',
In leaving the dochter of a lord.
And kissing a collier lassie an' a' ?
O never look doun, ray lassie, at a',
O never look doun, my lassie, at a'
Thy lips are as sweet, and thy figure complete,
As the finest dame in castle or ha'.
Though thou hae nae silk and holland sae sma',
Though thou hae nae silk and holland sae sma',
Thy coat and thy sark are thy ain handywark.
And Lady Jean was never sae braw.f
» From Johnson's Musical Museum, Part III, 1790.
t From Johnson's Musical Museum, Part IV, 1792. There is, however,
an earher and less delicate version in Herd's Collection, 1776. The present
was probably improved for Johnson by Burns.
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