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Thread #27601   Message #339032
Posted By: Margo
12-Nov-00 - 01:26 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Charlie He's My Darlin'
Subject: Charlie He's My Darlin'
These are the Robert Burns lyrics. I'm a bit surprised that the version of this in the DT is so different - but here it is:

Charlie He's My Darlin'
by Robert Burns

'Twas on a Monday morning,
Right early in the year,
That Charlie came to our town,
The young Chevalier.

Chorus-An' Charlie, he's my darling,
My darling, my darling,
Charlie, he's my darling,
The young Chevalier.

As he was walking up the street,
The city for to view,
O there he spied a bonie lass
The window looking through,
An' Charlie, &c.

Sae light's he jumped up the stair,
And tirl'd at the pin;
And wha sae ready as hersel'
To let the laddie in.
An' Charlie, &c.

He set his Jenny on his knee,
All in his Highland dress;
For brawly weel he ken'd the way
To please a bonie lass.
An' Charlie, &c.

It's up yon heathery mountain,
An' down yon scroggie glen,
We daur na gang a milking,
For Charlie and his men,
An' Charlie, &c.

Does anyone have any idea as to the meaning of the last verse: we dare not go a milking for Charlie and his men. What....? Margo