The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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Let love sparkle in her ee
Let her love nae man but me ;
That's the tocher-gude I prize ;
There the lover's treasure lies.
Colours mingled unco fine,
Common notions lang sinsyne,
Never can engage my love,
Until my fancy first approve.
It is nae meat, but appetite,
That makes our eating a delyte
Beauty is at best deceit
Fancy only kens nae cheat.*
BONNIE JEAN.
BURNS.
Tune—Bonnie Jean,
There was a lass, and she was fair,
At kirk and market to be seen ;
When a' the fairest maids were met,
The fairest maid was bonnie Jean.
And aye she wrought her mammie's wark,
And aye she sang sae merrilie ;
The blythest bird upon the bush
Had ne'er a lighter heart than she.
* This spirited song, with the exception of the first stanza, is from the
Tea-Table Miscellany, where it is printed with the signature Q, indicating
that it was an old song, with additions. The fourth stanza is probably an
addition by Burns, being from a copy in Johnson's Musical Museum, the
work to which he contributed so many revised and improved editions of
old Scottish songs.
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