My Love is But a Lassie Yet

X: 1
T: My Love is But a Lassie Yet
O: Trad
R: reel, march
Z: John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>
B: Bremner's "Scots Reels", 1757 as "Miss Farqharson's Reel"
B: Aird "Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs", v.II, p.1, #1, c.1782
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: D
|: dc \
| "D"d2D2 F2A2 | d2D2 D2dc | d2D2 F2A2 | "Em"e2E2 "A7"E2dc |
| "D"d2D2 F2A2 | "G"B2g2 "A7"f2e2 | "D"dcBA "A7"Bcde | "D"f2d2 d2 :|
|: fg \
| "D"a3f "A7"g3e | "D"f2d2 d2fg | a2f2 gfga | "Em"b2e2 "A7"e2fg |
| "D"a2af "A7"g2ge | "D"f2fd "A7"e2ec | "D"dcBA "A7"Bcde | "D"f2d2 d2 :|
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W: Chorus
W: My love, she's but a lassie yet,
W: My love, she's but a lassie yet!
W: We'll let her stand a year or twa,
W: She'll no be half sae saucy yet!
W: 1.
W: I rue the day I sought her, O!
W: I rue the day I sought her, O!
W: Wha gets her need na say he's woo'd,
W: But he may say he has bought her, O.
W: 2.
W: Come draw a drap o' the best o't yet,
W: Come draw a drap o' the best o't yet!
W: Gae seek for pleasure whare ye will,
W: But here I never missed it yet.
W: 3.
W: We're a' dry wi' drinkin o't,
W: We're a' dry wi' drinkin o't!
W: The minister kiss't the fiddler's wife -
W: He could na preach for thinkin o't!

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/England/song/MyLoveIsButALassieYet_D4/0000