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T: the LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME
O: 1806
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1806, p.100-1-3
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87661539
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
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w: When* Jan-uar' winds were* blaw-ing cauld, As*
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w: to the north* I* bent my way, The* mirk some
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w: night did* me in-fauld, I* kend na where* to*
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w: lodge till day. By* my good luck a* lass I
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w: met, Just* in the mid-dle of my care; And*
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w: kind-ly she did* me in-vite To* walk in-to* a*
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w: cham-ber fair.
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W:2.I bow'd fu' low unto this maid,
W:    And thank'd her for her courtesie;
W:  I bow'd fu' low unto this maid,
W:    And bade her mak a bed for me.
W:  She made the bed baith wide and braid,
W:    Wi' twa white hands she spread it down;
W:  She pat the cup to her rosy lips,
W:    And drank, "Young man, now sleep ye sound."
W:
W:3.She snatch'd the candle in her hand,
W:    And frae my chamber went wi' speed,
W:  But I ca'd her quickly back again,
W:    To lay some mair below my head.
W:  A cod she laid below my head,
W:    And served me wi' due respect;
W:  And to salute her wi' a kiss,
W:    I put my arms about her neck.
W:
W:3."Haud afF your hands, young man," she says,
W:    "And dinna sae uncivil be;
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W:  "Gif ye ha'e only love for me,
W:    "O wrang na my virginity!"
W:  Her hair was like the links o' gowd,
W:    Her teeth were like the ivory,
W:  Her cheeks like lilies dipt in wine,
W:    The lass that made the bed to me.
W:
W:4.Her bosom was the driven snaw,
W:    Twa drifted heaps sae fair to see;
W:  The limbs the polish'd marble stane,
W:    The lass that made the bed to me.
W:  I kiss'd her owre and owre again,
W:    And ay she wist na what to say;
W:  I laid her 'tween me and the wa';
W:    The lassie thought na lang till day.
W:
W:5.Upon the morrow, when we raise,
W:    I thank'd her for her courtesie:
W:  But ay she blush'd, and ay she sigh'd,
W:    And said, "Alas! ye've ruin'd me."
W:  I clasp'd her waist, and kiss'd her syne,
W:    While the tear stood twinklin in her ee:
W:  I said, "My lassie, dinna cry,
W:    "For ye ay shall mak the bed to me."
W:
W:6.She took her mither's Holland sheets,
W:    And made them a' in sarks to me.
W:  Blythe and. merry may she be,
W:    The lass that made the bed to me.
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W:  The bonny lass made the bed to me,
W:    The braw lass made the bed to me;
W:  I'll ne'er forget, till the day that I die,
W:    The lass that made the bed to me.
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