The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Various
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TUNE--_"Tibbie Fowler i' the Glen."_ I. There lives a lassie i' the braes, And Lizzy Liberty they ca' her, When she has on her Sunday's claes, Ye never saw a lady brawer; So a' the lads are wooing at her, Courting her, but canna get her; Bonny Lizzy Liberty, there 's ow'r mony wooing at her! II. Her mither ware a tabbit mutch, Her father was an honest dyker, She 's a black-eyed wanton witch, Ye winna shaw me mony like her: So a' the lads are wooing at her, Courting her, but canna get her; Bonny Lizzy Liberty, wow, sae mony 's wooing at her! III. A kindly lass she is, I 'm seer, Has fowth o' sense and smeddum in her, |
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