The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. / With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

by Robert Burns; Allan Cunningham

TO DAUNTON ME.

The two following old stanzas to this tune have some merit:

“To daunton me, to daunton me,
O ken ye what it is that’ll daunton me?—
There’s eighty-eight and eighty-nine,
And a’ that I hae borne sinsyne,
There’s cess and press and Presbytrie,
I think it will do meikle for to daunton me.

But to wanton me, to wanton me,
O ken ye what it is that wad wanton me—
To see gude corn upon the rigs,
And banishment amang the Whigs,
And right restor’d where right sud be,
I think it would do meikle for to wanton me.”

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