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There's News, Lasses

Robert Burns

“There's News, Lasses” as printed in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887).

Robert Burns: Collected Lyrics Text 438 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

There's news, lasses, news,

Gude news I've to tell,

There's a boat fu' o' lads

Come to our town to sell.

The wean wants a cradle,

An' the cradle wants a cod,

An' I'll no gang to my bed

Until I get a nod.

Verse 2

Father, quo' she, Mither, quo' she,

Do what ye can,

I'll no gang to my bed

Till I get a man.

The wean, &c.

Verse 3

I hae as gude a craft rig

As made o' yird and stane;

And waly fu' the ley-crap

For I maun till'd again.

The wean, &c.

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), “There's News, Lasses”

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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