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Amang the Trees

Robert Burns

“Amang the Trees” as printed in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887).

Robert Burns: Collected Lyrics Text 108 1887 · historical text
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This text comes from The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

Amang the trees where humming bees

At buds and flowers were hinging, O

Auld Caledon drew out her drone,

And to her pipe was singing; O

'Twas Pibroch, Sang, Strathspey, or Reels,

She dirl❜d them aff fu' clearly, O

When there cam a yell o' foreign squeels,

That dang her tapsalteerie, O—

Verse 2

Their capon craws and queer ha ha's,

They made our lugs grow eerie; O

The hungry bike did scrape and pike

Till we were wae and weary: O—

But a royal ghaist wha ance was cas'd

A prisoner aughteen year awa,

He fir'd a fiddler in the north

That dang them tapsalteerie, O.

Verse 3

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Credits

Written by Robert Burns

Words by Robert Burns. Historical text published in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887), “Amang the Trees”

Every text in this 1887 collected edition is by Robert Burns (1759-1796), who died more than 230 years ago, so the text is in the public domain worldwide; the edition carries a Wikisource PD-old determination and a pre-1931 United States publication.

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