Complete Songs Of Robert Burns - online book

360+ songs with lyrics, sheet music, historical notes & glossary.

	II. LOVE : GENERAL                          113
	Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o' care! Thou'll break my heart, thou warbling bird, That wantons thro' the flowering thorn : Thou minds me o1 departed joys, Departed never to return ! Aft hae I roved by bonie Doon To see the rose and woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its Luve, And fondly sae did I o' mine ; Wi1 lightsome heart I pu'd a rose, Fu' sweet upon its thorny tree! And my fause luver staw my rose— But ah ! he left the thorn wi' me. No. 124. O, stay, sweet warbling wood lark, stay. Tune : Whare shall our gudeman lie (see No. 10). O, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray! A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining. Again, again that tender part, That I may catch thy melting art ! For surely that wad touch her heart Wha kills me wi' disdaining. Say, was thy little mate unkind, And heard thee as the careless wind ? O, nocht but love and sorrow join'd Sic notes o' woe could wauken 1 Thou tells o' never-ending care, O' speechless grief and dark despair— For pity's sake, sweet bird, nae mair, Or my poor heart is broken ! 1