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CHARLIE, HE'S MY DARLING
Robert Burns

'Twas on a Monday morning,
Right early in the year,
That Charlie came to our town -
The young Chevalier.

Chorus

An' Charlie, he's my darling,
My darling, my darling;
Charlie, he's my darling -
The young Chevalier.

As he was walking up the street,
The city for to view;
O there he spied a bonie lass
The window looking thro'.
an' Charlie, etc

Sae light's he jimped up the stair,
And tirled at the pin;
And wha sae ready as hersel'
To let the laddie in?
an' Charlie, etc

He set his Jenny on his knee,
All in his Highland dress;
For brawlie weel he ken'd the way
To please a bonie lass.
an' Charlie, etc

It's up yon heathery mountain,
And down yon scroggy glen,
We daurna gang a-milking
For Charlie and his men!
an Charlie, etc

Footnote : This song shows the Jacobite sympthies of Robert Burns and first appeared in Johnson's Museum. This week commemorates the last Jacobite victory at Falkirk on 17 January 1746 when the Jacobite Army led by Lord George Murray defeated the Hanoverian forces under General Hawley.
 

 


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