Bonnie ran the burnie doon (Henry A. Lambeth)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77075:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 396 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Bonnie ran the burnie doon
Composer: Henry A. Lambeth
Lyricist: Carolina Oliphant
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: Lowland Scots
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 Paterson & Sons
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Original text and translations

Lowland Scots text

Bonnie ran the burnie doon,
Wand’rin’ and windin’;
Sweetly sang the birds abune,
Care never mindin’.

The gentle simmer wind
Was their nursie saft and kind,
And it rockit them, and rockit them,
All in their bowers sae hie.

The mossy rock was there,
And the water-lily fair,
And the little trout would sport about
All in the sunny beam.

Though simmer days be lang,
And sweet the birdies’ sang,
The wintry night and chilling blight
Keep aye their eerie roun’.

And my sweet sunny morn
Was like the ripplin’ burn,
Or summer breeze amang the trees
And linties lilting blithely.

And then the burnie’s like a sea,
Roarin’ and reamin’;
Nae wee bit sangster’s on the tree,
But wild birds screamin’.

O that the past I might forget,
Wand’rin’ and weepin’!
O that aneath the hillock green
Sound I were sleepin’!