Lyrics
YE banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, how can ye bloom sae fresh and fair!
How can ye chant, ye little birds, and I sae weary fu' o' care!
Thou'lt break my heart, thou warbling bird that wantons through the flow'ring thorn,
Thou minds me o' departed joys, departed, never to return.
Aft ha'e I rov'd 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' light some heart I pu'd a rose, fu' sweet upon its thorny tree;
And my fause lover stole my rose, but, ah! he left the thorn wi' me.
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