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42 Wha would shun the field o' danger?

Wha to fame would live a stranger?

Now when Freedom bids avenge her,

Wha would shun her ca', lassie?

Loudon's bonnie woods and braes,

Ha'e seen our happy bridal days,

And gentle hope shall soothe thy waes,

When I am far awa', lassie.

Hark! the swelling bugle rings,

Yielding joy to thee, laddie;

But the dolefu' bugle brings

Wacfu' thochts to me, laddie.

Lanely I may climb the mountain,

Lanely stray beside the fountain,

Still the weary moments counting,

Far frae love and thee, laddie.

Ower ths gory fields o' war,

Where Vengeance drives his crimson car,

Thou'lt maybe fa', frae me afar,

And nane to close thy e'e, laddie.

Oh, resume thy wonted smile,

Oh, suppress thy fears, lassie;

Glorious honour crowns the toil

That the soldier shares, lassie:

Heaven will shield thy faithful lover,

Till the vengeful strife is over;

Then we'll meet, nae mair to sever,

Till the day we dee, lassie:

Midst our bonnie woods and braes,

We'll spend our peaceful happy days,

As blythe's yon lichtsome lamb that plays

On Loudon's flowery lea, lassie.

[ following are the old verses to the now popular tune of "Somebody." They appear in the Tea Table Miscellany without signature, and are probably by Ramsay himself.]

[ by for Johnson's Museum. Burns, it will be seen, borrowed two or three lines from the opening stanza of the old verses. Hogg, in his Jacobite Relics, gives a version of the song in which the "Somebody" is made to mean the dethroned Stuart, but it is clearly a fabrication.]

heart is sair—I daurna tell—

My heart is sair for somebody;

I could wake a winter night,

For the sake of somebody.

Ochon, for somebody!

Och hey, for somebody!

I could range the warld round,

For the sake of somebody.

Ye powers that smile on virtuous love,

O, sweetly smile on somebody!

Frae ilka danger keep him free,

And send me safe my somebody.