Her daddie forbad, her minnieforbad Forbidden she wadna be: She wadnatrow't the browst she brew'd, Wadtaste saebitterlie. Chorus.-The lang lad they ca'Jumpin John Beguil'd the bonie lassie, The lang lad they ca'Jumpin John Beguil'd the bonie lassie. A cow and a cauf, a yoweand a hauf, And threttygude shillin's and three; A veragudetocher, a cotter-man's
Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal to a tyrant wife! Who has nowill but byher high permission, Who has not sixpence butin her possession; Who must to he, his dear friend's secrets tell, Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my
The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill, Concealing the course of the dark-winding rill; How languid the scenes, late so sprightly, appear! As Autumn to Winter resigns the pale year. The forests are leafless, the meadows are brown, And all the gay foppery of summer is flown: Apart let me wander, apart
Your friendship much can make me blest, O why that bliss destroy! Why urge the only, one request You know I will deny! Your thought, if Love must harbour there, Conceal it in that thought; Nor cause me from my bosom tear The very friend I sought.
Farewell, ye dungeons dark and strong, The wretch's destinie! M'Pherson's time will not be long On yonder gallows-tree. Chorus.-Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaedhe; He play'd a spring, and danc'd it round, Below the gallows-tree. O, what is death but parting breath? On many a bloody plain I've dared his face, and in this
What will I do ginmy Hoggiedie? My joy, my pride, my Hoggie! My only beast, I had naemae, And vow but I was vogie! The lee-langnight we watch'd the fauld, Me and my faithfu' doggie; We heard nochtbut the roaring linn, Amangthe braes saescroggie. Butthe houletcry'd frau the castle wa', The blitterfraethe boggie; The todreply'd