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Thread #33093   Message #2515481
Posted By: Jim Dixon
15-Dec-08 - 02:05 AM
Thread Name: Origins: My Love's in Germanie (Silly Wizard)
Subject: Lyr Add: MY LUVE'S IN GERMANIE (Chambers, 1829)
From The Scottish Songs; collected and illustrated by Robert Chambers, Vol. II (Edinburgh: William Tate, 1829), page 502:


MY LUVE'S IN GERMANIE.
Tune—My luve's in Germanie.

My luve's in Germanie;
  Send him hame, send him hame:
My luve's in Germanie;
  Send him hame.
My luve's in Germanie,
Fighting brave for royalty;
He may ne'er his Jeanie see;
  Send him hame, send him hame;
He may ne'er his Jeanie see;
  Send him hame.

He's as brave as brave can be;
  Send him hame, send him hame;
Our faes are ten to three;
  Send him hame.
Our faes are ten to three;
He maun either fa' or flee,
In the cause of loyalty;
  Send him hame, send him hame;
In the cause of loyalty;
  Send him hame.

Your luve ne'er learnt to flee,
  Bonnie dame, winsome dame;
Your luve ne'er learnt to flee,
  Winsome dame.
Your luve ne'er learnt to flee,
But he fell in Germanie,
Fighting brave for loyalty,
  Mournfu' dame, mournfu' dame;
Fighting brave for loyalty,
  Mournfu' dame.

He'll ne'er come ower the sea;
  Willie's slain, Willie's slain;
He'll ne'er come ower the sea;
  Willie's gane!
He will ne'er come ower the sea,
To his luve and ain countrie.
This warld's nae mair for me;
  Willie's gane, Willie's gane;
This warld's nae mair for me:
  Willie's gane!