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O TELL ME HOW FOR TO WOO.

Tune—Bonnie Dundee.

! tell me, oh tell me bonnie young lassie!

O tell me young lassie how for to woo!

Oh tell me, oh tell me bonnie young lassie,

O tell me sweet lassie how for to woo.

Say, maun I roose your cheeks like the morning,

Lips like the roses fresh moisten’d wi’ dew?

Say, maun I roose your een’s pawkie scorning?—

Oh ! tell me, oh tell me how for to woo!

Far hae I wander'd to see thee dear lassie!

Far hae I ventur'd across the saut sea!

Far hae I ventur'd o’er moorland and mountain,

Houseless, and wearie, sleep’d cauld on the lea

Ne’er have I tried yet to mak luve to onie;

For ne’er loo’d I onie till ance l saw you;

Now we’re alane in the green wood sae bonnie!—

Oh! tell me, oh tell me how for to woo!

What care I for your wandering, young laddie!

What care I for your crossing the sea!

It was na for naething you left poor young Peggy

—It was for my tocher ye cam to court me.

Say, hae ye gowd to busk me ay gawdie?

Ribbans, and perlins and breast-knots anew

A house that is cantie, wi‘ walth in’t, my laddie?

Without this ye never need try for to woo.