 TUNE—" The Boatman." YE gales that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boatman, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scotman. In haly bands We join'd our hands, Yet may not this discover, While parents rate A large estate, Before...  Dante and the Early Astronomers - Page 103by Mary Acworth Orr - 1807 - 359 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Hall (of Walthamstow.) - Scotland - 1807 - 358 pages
...and the fortunes of the great under the form of pastorals — to bring them down to the simpilcity, ease, and familiarity of a country life. It was on...composed : Ye gales that gently wave the sea, And plea*; the canny boatman ; Bear me from hence, or bring to me, My brave, my bonny Scotsman. In haly... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 378 pages
...Pretender ; at all events, the white rose of the Stuarts marks it for a Jacobite song. THE BONNY SCOT. Ye gales, that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boat-man, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scot-man ! In haly bands We join'd our hands, Yet may... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 414 pages
...old Italian author. See Chalmerfs Life ofRuddintan. 635 THE BONNY SCOT. RAMSAY. TUNE — The Boatman. YE gales, that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boat-man, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scot-man. In haly bands we joined our hands, Yet may... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 388 pages
...And, for strumpets and jilts, 1 abhor them, by Jove !* THE BONNY SCOT. RAMSAY. TUNE— The Boatman. YE gales, that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boat-man, • From the Tea-Table Miscellany, where it is marked by the signature L ; the initial, no doubt, of... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1851 - 364 pages
...courage is ready, Which makes me delight in my soger laddie. THE BONOT SCOT. TUNE—" The Boatman." YE gales that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boatman, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scotman. In haly bands We join'd our hands, Yet may not... | |
 | Folk songs, Scots - 1872 - 638 pages
...lay down, The right ye hae to Britain's Isle, And offer mo yer crown. BONNIE SCOT-MAN. ALLAN RAMSAY. YE gales, that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boat-man, Bear me frae hence, or bring to mo My brave, my bonnie Scot-man. In haly bands we joined our hands, Yet may... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - Scottish poetry - 1877 - 466 pages
...courage is ready, Which makes me delight in my soger laddie. THE BONNY SCOT. TUNE—" The Boatman." Ye gales that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boatman, Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scotman. In haly bands We join'd our hands, Yet may not... | |
 | John Jamieson - English language - 1879 - 692 pages
...uroperly denotes that species of knowledge which implies artfulness. 3. Attentive, wary, watchful, S. • Ye gales that gently wave the sea, And please the canny boatman. Bear me frae hence, or bring to me My brave, my bonny Scot-man. Кат&ч/'а Роет», ii. 256. That this... | |
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