Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 217. Song—The Lad they ca’ Jumpin John |
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| HER daddie forbad, her minnie forbad | |
| Forbidden she wadna be: | |
| She wadna trow’t the browst she brew’d, | |
| Wad taste sae bitterlie. | |
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| Chorus.—The lang lad they ca’Jumpin John | 5 |
| Beguil’d the bonie lassie, | |
| The lang lad they ca’Jumpin John | |
| Beguil’d the bonie lassie. | |
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| A cow and a cauf, a yowe and a hauf, | |
| And thretty gude shillin’s and three; | 10 |
| A vera gude tocher, a cotter-man’s dochter, | |
| The lass wi’ the bonie black e’e. | |
| The lang lad, &c. | |
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