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Wha in a brulyie will first cry a parley ?
Never the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley I
Bannocks o' bear-meal, bannocks o' barley
Here's to the Highlandman's bannocks o' barley I
Wha, in his wae days, were loyal to Charlie ?
Wha but the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley ?
Bannocks o' bear-meal, &c.*
GO TO BERWICK, JOHNIE.
Tune— Go to Berwick, Johnie.
Go to Berwick, Johnie
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Bring her frae the Border ;
Yon sweet bonnie lassie,
Let her gae nae farther.
English loons will twine ye
O' the lovely treasure
But we'll let them ken,
A sword wi' them we'll measure.
Go to Berwick, Johnie,
And regain your honour
Drive them ower the Tweed,
And show our Scottish banner.
I am Rob the king.
And ye are Jock, my brither
But, before we lose her.
We'll a' there thegither.-|-
* From Johnson's Musical Museum, vol. V. circa 1798.
t This incomprehensible, though popular rant, is from Johnson's Musical
Museum, vol. VI., 1803. Ritson, in his Scottish Songs, 1793, mentions,
that he had heard it gravely asserted at Edinburgh, that " a foolish
song, beginning.
Go, go, go, go to Berwick, Johnie
Thou Shalt have the horse, and I shall have the poney
was made upon one of Wallace's marauding expeditions, and that the person
thus addressed was no other than his^w* Achates, Sir John Graham.'*
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