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title: "O for Ane an’ Twenty, Tam"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1791"
location: "Ellisland"
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/o-for-ane-an-twenty-tam/"
---

# O for Ane an’ Twenty, Tam

## Poem
*Chorus*  
An’ O for ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
And hey, sweet ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
I’ll learn my kin a rattlin’ sang,  
An’ I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam.

They snool me sair, and haud me down,  
An’ gar me look like bluntie, Tam;  
But three short years will soon wheel roun’,  
An’ then comes ane an’ twenty, Tam.

*Chorus*  
An’ O for ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
And hey, sweet ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
I’ll learn my kin a rattlin’ sang,  
An’ I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam.

A glieb o’ lan’, a claut o’ gear,  
Was left me by my auntie, Tam;  
At kith or kin I need na spier,  
An I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam.

*Chorus*  
An’ O for ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
And hey, sweet ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
I’ll learn my kin a rattlin’ sang,  
An’ I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam.

They’ll hae me wed a wealthy coof,  
Tho’ I mysel’ hae plenty, Tam;  
But, hear’st thou laddie! there’s my loof,  
I’m thine at ane an’ twenty, Tam!

*Chorus*  
An’ O for ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
And hey, sweet ane an’ twenty, Tam!  
I’ll learn my kin a rattlin’ sang,  
An’ I saw ane an’ twenty, Tam.

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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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