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Thread #3098   Message #14839
Posted By: Wolfgang
16-Oct-97 - 10:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw (Burns)
Subject: Lyr Add: OF A' THE AIRTS THE WIND CAN BLAW (Burns)
Tim, we both have had so many funny experiences with the web that we know that neither you nor I are to blame. Both links worked again for me (don't ask me why), so I do just this little copy and paste job:

Of a' the airts

Of a' the airts the wind can blaw,
I dearly like the west,
For there the bonnie lassie lives,
The lassie I lo'e best:
There's wild woods grow, and rivers row,
And mony a hill between;
But day and night my fancy's flight
Is ever wi' my Jean.

I see her in the dewy flowers,
I see her sweet and fair :
I hear her in the tunefu' birds,
I hear her charm the air:
There's not a bonnie flower that springs
By fountain, shaw, or green;
There's not a bonnie bird that sings,
But minds me o' my Jean.