Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 539. Song—O that’s the lassie o’ my heart |
| | | | | Tune—“Morag.” |
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| O WAT ye wha that lo’es me | |
| And has my heart a-keeping? | |
| O sweet is she that lo’es me, | |
| As dews o’ summer weeping, | |
| In tears the rosebuds steeping! | 5 |
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| Chorus.—O that’s the lassie o’ my heart, | |
| My lassie ever dearer; | |
| O she’s the queen o’ womankind, | |
| And ne’er a ane to peer her. | |
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| If thou shalt meet a lassie, | 10 |
| In grace and beauty charming, | |
| That e’en thy chosen lassie, | |
| Erewhile thy breast sae warming, | |
| Had ne’er sic powers alarming; | |
| O that’s the lassie, &c. | 15 |
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| If thou hadst heard her talking, | |
| And thy attention’s plighted, | |
| That ilka body talking, | |
| But her, by thee is slighted, | |
| And thou art all delighted; | 20 |
| O that’s the lassie, &c. | |
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| If thou hast met this Fair One, | |
| When frae her thou hast parted, | |
| If every other Fair One | |
| But her, thou hast deserted, | 25 |
| And thou art broken-hearted, | |
| O that’s the lassie o’ my heart, | |
| My lassie ever dearer; | |
| O that’s the queen o’ womankind, | |
| And ne’er a ane to peer her. | 30 |
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