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	No. 121. Sweet are the banks—the banks o Doon. (first version.) Tune : Cambdelmore Bremner's Reels, 1761, p. 02.
	Sweet are the banks—the banks o' Doon, The spreading flowers are fair, And everything is blythe and glad, But I am fu' o' care. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings upon the bough ! Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true: Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate, For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate! Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its Luve, And sae did I o' mine. Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose Upon its thorny tree, But my fause luver staw my rose, And left the thorn wi' me : Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose Upon a morn in June, And sae I flourished on the morn, And sae was pu'd or noon.