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Bonie Wee Thing

Melody

Robert Burns, 1791

Chorus:
Bonie wee thing, cannie wee thing,
Lovely wee thing, wert thou mine,
I wad wear thee in my bosom,
Lest my jewel it should tine.

Wistfully I look and languish
In that bonie face o' thine,
And my heart it stounds wi' anguish,
Lest my wee thing be na mine.
Chorus

2. Wit and Grace and Love and Beauty,
In ae constellation shine;
To adore thee is my duty
Goddess o' this soul o' mine.
Chorus

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Burns dedicated this song to Deborah Duff Davies. Burns wrote a letter to her a few months later in which he said "I am a good deal luckier than most poets. When I sing of Miss Davies I have only to feign the passion - the charms are real."

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