Ye Banks And Braes O'Bonnie Doon

by Robert Burns

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YE BANKS AND BRAES O’BONNIE DOON
W: Robert Burns
M: Charles Miller
Key: G, tabbed on a C harp

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Ye banks and braes o' bon-nie Doon’
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How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
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How can ye chaunt, ye lit-tle birds
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And I sae wear-y full o' care?
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Ye'll break my heart, ye warb-ling bird
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That wan-tons thro' the flow-'ring thorn
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Ye mind me o' de-part-ed joys
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De-part-ed nev-er to re-turn. 

Oft hae I roved by bonnie Doon
To see the rose and woodbine twine
And ilka bird sang o' its love
And fondly sae did I o' mine
Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Full sweet upon its thorny tree
And my fause lover stole my rose
But ah! he left the thorn wi' me.