Category: Poetry
The Book of Ballads Eleventh Edition, 1870
"My heart is sick, my heid is sair: "Gie me a glass o' the gude brandie: To set my foot on the braid green sward, I'd gie the half o' my yearly fee.
Category: Poetry
"My heart is sick, my heid is sair: "Gie me a glass o' the gude brandie: To set my foot on the braid green sward, I'd gie the half o' my yearly fee.
"I canna {124}do't, my liege," he said, "Hae mercy on my auld grey hair! But gin that I had got the words, I think that I might mak the air."
1. PART I."My heart is sick, my heid is sair: "Gie me a glass o' the gude brandie: To set my foot on the braid green sward, I'd gie the half o' my yearly fee.