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Song—Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad

by Robert Burns, 1789

Young Jockie was the blythest lad,
  In a' our town or here awa;
Fu' blythe he whistled at the gaud,
  Fu' lightly danc'd he in the ha'.

He roos'd my een sae bonie blue,
  He roos'd my waist sae genty sma';
An' aye my heart cam to my mou',
  When ne'er a body heard or saw.

My Jockie toils upon the plain,
  Thro' wind and weet, thro' frost and snaw:
And o'er the lea I leuk fu' fain,
  When Jockie's owsen hameward ca'.

An' aye the night comes round again,
  When in his arms he taks me a';
An' aye he vows he'll be my ain,
  As lang's he has a breath to draw.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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