Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 367. Song—When she cam ben she bobbed |
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| O WHEN she cam’ ben she bobbed fu’ law, | |
| O when she cam’ ben she bobbed fu’ law, | |
| And when she cam’ ben, she kiss’d Cockpen, | |
| And syne denied she did it at a’. | |
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| And was na Cockpen right saucy witha’? | 5 |
| And was na Cockpen right saucy witha’? | |
| In leaving the daughter of a lord, | |
| And kissin’ a collier lassie an’ a’! | |
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| O never look down, my lassie, at a’, | |
| O never look down, my lassie, at a’, | 10 |
| Thy lips are as sweet, and thy figure complete, | |
| As the finest dame in castle or ha’. | |
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| Tho’ thou has nae silk, and holland sae sma’, | |
| Tho’ thou has nae silk, and holland sae sma’, | |
| Thy coat and thy sark are thy ain handiwark, | 15 |
| And lady Jean was never sae braw. | |
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