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JENNY LASS, My BONNY BIRD.

ENNY las, my bonny bird.

my father's dead, and a that,

And nugly hid aneath the yird,

An' I'm his heir, an' a' that,

I'm now a laird, an' a' that,

I'm now a laird, an' a' that,

I've gear an' lan' at my comman'

an' muckle mair than a' that.

He left me, wi' his diein' breath,

a house an a' that;

Guid byars an' birns an' wabs o' claith,

a guid peat stack an a' that;

A mare, a foal an' a' that;

A mare, a foal an' a' that;

Sax guid milk ky, a ca fcalf [sic] forby;

twa guid pet ewes an' a' that.

A yard, a meadow long braid lees;

wi' tacks o corn an a' that'

They're weel hedg'd roun wi thorn an' trees,

an' carts' an cars an' a' that;

A plou' an' g ithgraith [sic] an a' that;

A plou' an' graith an' a' that;

Good harrow twa, cock, hens an a',

A grizie too, an' a' that.

I've walth o'claiths for ilka-days,

for Sundays too, an' a' that;