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1795 · Song

This Is No My Ain Lassie


Tune ·  This is no my house

Chorus

This is no my ain lassie,Fair tho, the lassie be;Weel ken I my ain lassie,Kind love is in her e’re.4
I see a form, I see a face,Ye weel may wi’ the fairest place;It wants, to me, the witching grace,The kind love that’s in her e’e.8

Chorus

This is no my ain lassie,Fair tho, the lassie be;Weel ken I my ain lassie,Kind love is in her e’re.12
She’s bonie, blooming, straight, and tall,And lang has had my heart in thrall;And aye it charms my very saul,The kind love that’s in her e’e.16

Chorus

This is no my ain lassie,Fair tho, the lassie be;Weel ken I my ain lassie,Kind love is in her e’re.20
A thief sae pawkie is my Jean,To steal a blink, by a’ unseen;But gleg as light are lover’s een,When kind love is in her e’e.24

Chorus

This is no my ain lassie,Fair tho, the lassie be;Weel ken I my ain lassie,Kind love is in her e’re.28
It may escape the courtly sparks,It may escape the learned clerks;But well the watching lover marksThe kind love that’s in her eye.32

Chorus

This is no my ain lassie,Fair tho, the lassie be;Weel ken I my ain lassie,Kind love is in her e’re.36
Year
1795
Form
Song
Location
Dumfries
Tune
This is no my house
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns