Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 219. Song—To Daunton Me |
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| THE BLUDE-RED rose at Yule may blaw, | |
| The simmer lilies bloom in snaw, | |
| The frost may freeze the deepest sea; | |
| But an auld man shall never daunton me. | |
| Refrain.—To daunton me, to daunton me, | 5 |
| And auld man shall never daunton me. | |
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| To daunton me, and me sae young, | |
| Wi’ his fause heart and flatt’ring tongue, | |
| That is the thing you shall never see, | |
| For an auld man shall never daunton me. | 10 |
| To daunton me, &c. | |
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| For a’ his meal and a’ his maut, | |
| For a’ his fresh beef and his saut, | |
| For a’ his gold and white monie, | |
| And auld men shall never daunton me. | 15 |
| To daunton me, &c. | |
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| His gear may buy him kye and yowes, | |
| His gear may buy him glens and knowes; | |
| But me he shall not buy nor fee, | |
| For an auld man shall never daunton me. | 20 |
| To daunton me, &c. | |
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| He hirples twa fauld as he dow, | |
| Wi’ his teethless gab and his auld beld pow, | |
| And the rain rains down frae his red blear’d e’e; | |
| That auld man shall never daunton me. | 25 |
| To daunton me, &c. | |
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