Bonnie ran the burnie doon - Henry A. Lambeth

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◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → Lowland Scots

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 77075

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2023-11-08

License Personal

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Bonnie ran the burnie doon, Wand’rin’ and windin’; Sweetly sang the birds abune, Care never mindin’. The gentle simmer wind Was their nursie saft and kind, And it rockit them, and rockit them, All in their bowers sae hie. The mossy rock was there, And the water-lily fair, And the little trout would sport about All in the sunny beam. Though simmer days be lang, And sweet the birdies’ sang, The wintry night and chilling blight Keep aye their eerie roun’. And my sweet sunny morn Was like the ripplin’ burn, Or summer breeze amang the trees And linties lilting blithely. And then the burnie’s like a sea, Roarin’ and reamin’; Nae wee bit sangster’s on the tree, But wild birds screamin’. O that the past I might forget, Wand’rin’ and weepin’! O that aneath the hillock green Sound I were sleepin’!