Song --
In Simmer when the hay was mawn
And corn wav'd green on ilka field
While claver blooms white o'er the lea,
And roses blaw in ilka bield;
Blythe Bessie, in the milkin-shiel,
Says, I'll be wed come o't what will:
Outshak a dame in wrinkled old-
O'gude advisement comes nae ill.-
Its ye hae wooers mony ane,
And lassie ye're but young ye ken,
Then wait a wee & canny wale
A routhy but, a routhy ben:
There's Johnie o' the Buskieglen,
Fu' is his barn, fu’ is his byre;
Tak this frae me, my bonie hen,
It's plenty-beets the [?]
For Johnie o' the Buskieglen,
I dinna care a single flie
He loes sae weel his craful & kye,
He has nae loove to spare for me:
But Robie's heart is frank & free
Fu'weel I wat he loes m dear,
And loove blinks bonie in his e'e,
For loove I'll wed, & work for gear.
In Simmer when the hay was mawn
And corn wav'd green on ilka field
While claver blooms white o'er the lea,
And roses blaw in ilka bield;
Blythe Bessie, in the milkin-shiel,
Says, I'll be wed come o't what will:
Outshak a dame in wrinkled old-
O'gude advisement comes nae ill.-
Its ye hae wooers mony ane,
And lassie ye're but young ye ken,
Then wait a wee & canny wale
A routhy but, a routhy ben:
There's Johnie o' the Buskieglen,
Fu' is his barn, fu’ is his byre;
Tak this frae me, my bonie hen,
It's plenty-beets the [?]
For Johnie o' the Buskieglen,
I dinna care a single flie
He loes sae weel his craful & kye,
He has nae loove to spare for me:
But Robie's heart is frank & free
Fu'weel I wat he loes m dear,
And loove blinks bonie in his e'e,
For loove I'll wed, & work for gear.
Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/02/104
- Alt. number
- 3.6262
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/02/104
- Alt. number
- 3.6262
- On display
- No
- Creator
- Burns, Robert (Author)
Description
Country Lassie. Begins: "In simmer when the hay was mawn". The first three eight-line verses only. Also known as "The Country Lass".
This manuscript contains a fragment of the song The Country Lassie. This song was mentioned in a letter sent from Burns to George Thomson in 1794 but was believed to have been written in 1792. It was also included in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum.
Burns's friend Alexander Cunningham said of the song, 'It hovers between the dramatic and the sentimental, and partakes of the character of both.'
Archive information
Themes
Hierarchy
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Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs
(
a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
- Country Lassie
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