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title: "My Bonie Mary"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1788"
location: "Mossgiel"
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/my-bonie-mary/"
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# My Bonie Mary

## Song
Go, fetch to me a pint o’ wine,  
And fill it in a silver tassie;  
That I may drink before I go,  
A service to my bonie lassie.  
The boat rocks at the pier o’ Leith;  
Fu’ loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry;  
The ship rides by the Berwick-law,  
And I maun leave my bonie Mary.

The trumpets sound, the banners fly,  
The glittering spears are ranked ready:  
The shouts o’ war are heard afar,  
The battle closes deep and bloody;  
It’s not the roar o’ sea or shore,  
Wad mak me langer wish to tarry!  
Nor shouts o’ war that’s heard afar—  
It’s leaving thee, my bonie Mary!

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/my-bonie-mary/