Of a’ the airts (Charles Jessop)

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• (Posted 2023-11-02)  CPDL #76900:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-02).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 401 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Of a’ the airts
Composer: Charles Jessop
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1895 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw,
I dearly like the west,
For there the bonnie lassie lives,
The lassie I lo’e best:
There wild-woods grow, and rivers row,
And mony a hill between;
Bait day and night my fancy’s flight
Is ever wi’ my Jean.

I see her in the dewy flowers,
I see her sweet and fair:
I hear her in the tunefu’ birds,
I hear her charm the air:
There’s not a bonnie flower that springs
By fountain, shaw, or green,
There’s not a bonnie bird that sings,
But minds me o’ my Jean.