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title: "Charlie, He’s My Darling"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1794"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/charlie-hes-my-darling/"
---

# Charlie, He’s My Darling

## Poem
’Twas on a Monday morning,  
Right early in the year,  
That Charlie came to our town,  
The young Chevalier.

*Chorus*  
An’ Charlie, he’s my darling,  
My darling, my darling,  
Charlie, he’s my darling,  
The young Chevalier.

As he was walking up the street,  
The city for to view,  
O there he spied a bonie lass  
The window looking through,

*Chorus*  
An’ Charlie, he’s my darling,  
My darling, my darling,  
Charlie, he’s my darling,  
The young Chevalier.

Sae light’s he jumped up the stair,  
And tirl’d at the pin;  
And wha sae ready as hersel’  
To let the laddie in.

*Chorus*  
An’ Charlie, he’s my darling,  
My darling, my darling,  
Charlie, he’s my darling,  
The young Chevalier.

He set his Jenny on his knee,  
All in his Highland dress;  
For brawly weel he ken’d the way  
To please a bonie lass.

*Chorus*  
An’ Charlie, he’s my darling,  
My darling, my darling,  
Charlie, he’s my darling,  
The young Chevalier.

It’s up yon heathery mountain,  
An’ down yon scroggie glen,  
We daur na gang a milking,  
For Charlie and his men,

*Chorus*  
An’ Charlie, he’s my darling,  
My darling, my darling,  
Charlie, he’s my darling,  
The young Chevalier.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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