Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 374. Song—O can ye Labour Lea? |
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| Chorus—O can ye labour lea, young man, | |
| O can ye labour lea? | |
| It fee nor bountith shall us twine | |
| Gin ye can labour lea. | |
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| I FEE’D a man at Michaelmas, | 5 |
| Wi’ airle pennies three; | |
| But a’ the faut I had to him, | |
| He could na labour lea, | |
| O can ye labour lea, &c. | |
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| O clappin’s gude in Febarwar, | 10 |
| An’ kissin’s sweet in May; | |
| But my delight’s the ploughman lad, | |
| That weel can labour lea, | |
| O can ye labour lea, &c. | |
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| O kissin is the key o’ luve, | 15 |
| And clappin’ is the lock; | |
| An’ makin’ o’s the best thing yet, | |
| That e’er a young thing gat. | |
| O can ye labour lea, &c. | |
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