Lyr Add: Brose & Butter (Robert Burns)

02 Jan 08 - 03:55 PM (#2226934)
Subject: Lyr Add: Brose & Butter
From: chico

               Em
  Gie my love brose, brose 
                         D
  Gie my love brose and butter
  Aye gie my love brose
  Yestreen he wanted his supper
    
            G
  Jenny was up at the laft
  Johnny was glad to be at her
  A wind came oot o' the west 
  Made all the windows to clatter
  
  A dow is a dainty dish
  The goose is hollow within
  The sight would make you blush
  But aw the fun is to finishing 
  
  My daddie sent me to the mill
  To pull my minnie some heather
  And drive it intae yur fill
  Yur welcome tae the leather
  
  A mouse is a merry wee beast
  The moodiewark wants the een
  And oh for a touch o the thing
  I had in my nieve yestreen oh
  
  The lark she loves the grass
  The hen she loves the stubble
  And hey for the gardner lad
  Tae gully away wi' his dibble
  
  
  [brose = oatmeal and hot water
  [yestreen = yesterday evening]
  [laft = loft]
  [oot o' = out of]
  [dow = pigeon]
  [aw = all]]
  

Burns

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02 Jan 08 - 06:01 PM (#2227043)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Brose & Butter (Burns)
From: Joe Offer

Attributed to Robert Burns - (click).
-Joe-

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02 Jan 08 - 06:26 PM (#2227055)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Brose & Butter (Burns)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

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1.
O gie my love brose, lasses;
O gie my love brose and butter;
For nane in Carrick wi him
Can gie a cunt its supper.

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1.
Jenny sits up i' the laft,*
Jockie wad fain a been at her;
But there cam a wind o' the west
Made the winnocks to clatter.

O gie my love brose, lasses; etc.
(posted 81553: Brose

Some say collected by Burns. * In Merry Muses.

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