Part One Love Poems 第一部分 愛情詩

001 A Lass Wi' A Tocher

Tune: Ballinamona Ora

Chorus

Then hey for a lass wi' a tocher,

Then hey for a lass wi' a tocher,

Then hey for a lass wi' a tocher,

The nice yellow guineas for me!

1．

Awa wi' your witchcraft o' Beauty's alarms,

The slender bit beauty you grasp in your arms!

O, gie me the lass that has acres o' charms!

O, gie me the lass wi' the weel-stockit farms!

2．

Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,

And withers the faster the faster it grows;

But the rapturous charm o' the bonie green knowes,

Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes!

3．

And e'en when this Beauty your bosom has blest,

The brightest o' Beauty may cloy when possess'd;

But the sweet, yellow darlings wi' Geordie impress'd,

The langer ye hae them, the mair they're carest!

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