An I hae gotten the bonniest lass
In a’ the north countrie.’
G
Scott’s Minstrelsy, III, 280, 1803; from Ettrick Forest.
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O the broom, and the bonny, bonny broom,
And the broom of the Cowdenknows!
And aye sae sweet as the lassie sang,
I the bought, milking the ewes.