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Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns: Part XXVI

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Burns, Robert

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Part XXVI

Blythe Was She^1

tune-"Andro and his Cutty Gun."

Chorus.-Blythe, blythe and merry was she, Blythe was she but and ben; Blythe by the banks of Earn, And blythe in Glenturit glen.

By Oughtertyre grows the aik, On Yarrow banks the birken shaw; But Phemie was a bonier lass Than braes o' Yarrow ever saw. Blythe, blythe, &c.

Her looks were like a flow'r in May, Her smile was like a simmer morn: She tripped by the banks o' Earn, As light's a bird upon a thorn. Blythe, blythe, &c.

Her bonie face it was as meek As ony lamb upon a lea; The evening sun ...

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