The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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Stand i' the stool, when I hae done ; *
Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.
O gude ale conies, and gude ale goes
Gude ale gars me sell my hose.
Sell my hose, and pawn my shoon
Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.-j-
THE COLLIER'S BONNIE LASSIE.
RAMSAY.
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Tune— The Collier^ s lonnie lassie.
The collier has a daughter.
And O she's wondrous bonnie.
A laird he was that sought her,
Rich baith in lands and money.
The tutors watched the motion
Of this young honest lover
But love is like the ocean
Wha can its depths discover I
He had the art to please ye,
And was by a' respected
* " Gars me work when I am dizzy
Spend my wage when a' is done."
Variation in a stall copy.
t This is not precisely an original composition of Burns's, but was only
modified and trimmed up by him for the Musical Museum. The present
version is from the Musical Museum, collated with one in Cromek's " Select
Scottish Songs," where the following stanza is inserted instead of that
beginning, " Gude ale bauds me bare and busy."
I had forty shillings in a clout,
Gude ale gart me pyke them out
That gear should moule I thought a sin
Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.
" The song," says Burns, " sings to the tune called the Bottom of the
Punch Bowl, of which a very good copy may be found in M 'Gibbon's Collection."
Cromek's Reliques.
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