#258 - Bonnie Doon

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• Composer:
  • Charles Miller, 1788
• Also known as:
  • Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon
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• Incipit: 51122353212321165561232327343212321655671
• Condensed Incipit: 512353212321656123232734321232165671
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• Lyrics:
  Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon,
  How can ye bloom sae fair!
  How can ye chant, ye little birds,
  And I sae fu' o' care!
  
  Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird
  That sings upon the bough;
  Thou minds me o' the happy days
  When my fause Luve was true.
  
  Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird
  That sings beside thy mate;
  For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
  And wist na o' my fate.
  
  Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon
  To see the woodbine twine,
  And ilka bird sang o' its love;
  And sae did I o' mine.
  
  Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
  Frae aff its thorny tree;
  And my fause luver staw the rose,
  But left the thorn wi' me.
  
  
  • Robert Burns

    • #126 - Auld Lang Syne
    • #164 - The Campbells are Coming
    • #258 - Bonnie Doon
    • #263 - Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
    • #268 - Comin' Thro' the Rye
    • #2107 - Auld Lang Syne
    • #2120 - 1. Nancy Lee / 2. Auld Lang Syne

    (1759-1796)