by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Awa wi' your witchcraft o' beauty's...
Language: Scottish (Scots)
Awa wi' your witchcraft o' beauty's alarms, The slender bit beauty you grasp in your arms: O, gie me the lass that has acres o' charms, O, gie me the lass wi' the weel-stockit farms. Chorus: Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher, Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher, Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher; The nice yellow guineas for me. Your beauty 's a flower, in the morning that blows, And withers the faster the faster it grows; But the rapturous charm o' the bonie green knowes, Ilk Spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes. Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher... And e'en when this Beauty your bosom has blest, The brightest o' beauty may cloy, when possest; But the sweet yellow darlings wi' Geordie imprest, The langer ye hae them, - the mair they're carest! Then hey, for a lass wi' a tocher...
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- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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