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Kind Robin loe's me

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“Kind Robin loe's me” as printed in The Scottish Minstrel (Second Series) (1851).

Anonymous: Collected Lyrics Text 11 1851 · historical text
Public domainScottish songFolk
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This text comes from The Scottish Minstrel (Second Series), a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

Robin is my only jo,

Robin has the art to lo'e;

So to his suit I mean to bow,

Because I ken he lo'es me.

Verse 2

Happy, happy was the show'r

That led me to his birken bow'r,

Where first of love I fand the pow'r,

And ken'd that Robin lo'ed me.

Verse 3

He's tall and sonsy, frank and free,

Lo'ed by a', and dear to me;

Wi' him I'd live, wi' him I'd die,

Because my Robin lo'es me.

Verse 4

Then fly ye lazy hours away,

And hasten on the happy day,

When, "join your hands," Mess John shall say,

And mak' him mine that lo'es me.

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Words by Anonymous. Historical text published in The Scottish Minstrel (Second Series) (1851); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

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The Scottish Minstrel (Second Series) (1851), “Kind Robin loe's me”

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