There Grows A Bonie Brier-Bush In Our Kail-Yard (Burns)

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B:Donald A. Low, ed., The Songs of Robert Burns (Routledge, 1993), no. 340
S:SMM no. 492 (1796), singend Z; Hastie MS, f. 156
N:Fairly slow
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w:There_ grows a bon-ie bri-er-bush in our kail - yard, There
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w:grows a bon-ie bri-er-bush in our kail - yard, And be -
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w:low the bon-ie bri-er-bush there's a las-sie and a lad, And they're_
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w:bu-sy, bu-sy court - ing in our kail - yard.

There grows a bonie brier-bush in our kail-yard,
There grows a bonie brier-bush in our kail-yard;
And below the bonie brier-bush there's a lassie and a lad,
And they're busy, busy courting in our kail-yard.

We'll court nae mair below the buss in our kail-yard,
We'll court nae mair below the buss in our kail-yard,
We'll awa to Athole's green, and there we'll no be seen,
Whare the trees and the branches will be our safeguard.

Will ye go to the dancin in Carlyle's ha',
Will ye go to the dancin in Carlyle's ha',
Where Sandy and Nancy I'm sure will ding them a'?
I winna gang to the dance in Carlyle-ha'.

What will I do for a lad, when Sandie gangs awa?
What will I do for a lad, when Sandie gangs awa?
I will awa to Edinburgh and win a pennie fee,
And see an onie bonie lad will fancy me.

He's comin frae the North that's to fancy me,
He's comin frae the North that's to fancy me,
A feather in his bonnet and a ribbon at his knee -
He's a bonie, bonie laddie, and yon be he.