Tibbie Dunbar: Tibbie Dunbar

Tibbie Dunbar

Tune--"_Johnny M'Gill._"
[We owe the air of this song to one Johnny M'Gill, a fiddler of
Girvan, who bestowed his own name on it: and the song itself partly to
Burns and partly to some unknown minstrel. They are both in the
Museum.]

I.
    O, Wilt thou go wi' me,
      Sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
    O, wilt thou go wi' me,
      Sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
    Wilt thou ride on a horse,
      Or be drawn in a car,
    Or walk by my side,
      O, sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
II.
    I care na thy daddie,
      His lands and his money,
    I care na thy kindred,
      Sae high and sae lordly:
    But say thou wilt hae me
      For better for waur--
    And come in thy coatie,
      Sweet Tibbie Dunbar!

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