Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon
Written by Robert Burns
This version I am writing is based on the
Cover by the group, Fiddlesticks found below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a85DTsSdU7k
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Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon,
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How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
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How can ye chant, ye little birds,
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And I'm sae weary, fu' o' care!
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Ye'll break my heart, ye warbling bird,
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That wantons through the flow'ring thorn,
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Ye mind me o' departed joys,
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Departed never to return.
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Oft ha'e I roved by bonnie Doon,
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To see the rose and woodbine twine;
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And ilka bird sang o' its love,
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And fondly sae did I o' mine.
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Wi' lightsome heart I stretch'd my hand,
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And pu'd a rosebud from the tree;
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But my fause lover stole the rose,
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And left, and left the thorn wi’ me.
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Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon,
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How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
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How can ye chant, ye little birds,
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And I'm sae weary, fu' o' care!
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Ye'll break my heart, ye warbling bird,
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That wantons through the flow'ring thorn,
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Ye mind me o' departed joys,
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Departed never to return.