Poem by Robert Burns

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O wat ye what my minnie did,
  	My minnie did, my minnie did,
O wat ye what my minnie did
  	On Tysday ’t een to me, jo?
She laid me in a saft bed,
  	A saft bed, a saft bed,
She laid me in a saft bed,
  	And bade gudeen to me, jo.

An’ wat ye what the parson did,
  	The parson did, the parson did,
An’ wat ye what the parson did,
  	A’ for a penny fee, jo?
He loosed on me a lang man,
  	A mickle man, a strang man,
He loosed on me a lang man,
  	That might hae worried me, jo.

An’ I was but a young thing,
  	A young thing, a young thing,
An’ I was but a young thing,
  	Wi’ nane to pity me, jo.
I wat the kirk was in the wyte,
  	In the wyte, in the wyte,
To pit a young thing in a fright
  	An’ loose a man on me, jo.

1. The Flowery Banks of Cree
2. Farewell, Thou Stream
3. The Day Returns
4. As Down the Burn They Took Their Way
5. Theniel Menzies’ Bonnie Mary

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