Traditional Scottish Songs
- My Love She's But A Lassie Yet

Robert Burns based this song on a scrap of an old one and added his own magic.


My Love She's But A Lassie Yet

Chorus

Oh my love she's but a lassie yet,
Oh my love she's but a lassie yet,
We'll let her stand a year or twa,
She'll no be half sae saucy yet.

I rue the day I sought her, O!
I rue the day I sought her, O!
Wha gets her need na say she's woo'd,
But he may say he's bought her, O!

Chorus

Come draw a drap o' the best o't yet,
Come draw a drap o' the best o't yet,
Gae seek for pleasure where you will,
But here I never missed it yet.

Chorus

We're a' dry wi' drinkin' o't
We're a' dry wi' drinkin' o't
The minister kiss'd the fiddler's wife -
He could na preach for thinking o't!

Chorus

Meaning of unusual words:
twa=two
drap=drop
gae=go

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