Part One Love Poems 第一部分 爱情诗
001 A Lass Wi' A Tocher
Tune: Ballinamona Ora
Chorus
Then hey for a lass wi' a tocher,
Then hey for a lass wi' a tocher,
Then hey for a lass wi' a tocher,
The nice yellow guineas for me!
1．
Awa wi' your witchcraft o' Beauty's alarms,
The slender bit beauty you grasp in your arms!
O, gie me the lass that has acres o' charms!
O, gie me the lass wi' the weel-stockit farms!
2．
Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster the faster it grows;
But the rapturous charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes!
3．
And e'en when this Beauty your bosom has blest,
The brightest o' Beauty may cloy when possess'd;
But the sweet, yellow darlings wi' Geordie impress'd,
The langer ye hae them, the mair they're carest!
Notes
Title A Lass Wi' A Tocher: A Lass With A Dowry
Burns wrote this song to an Irish tune. This was first printed in 1799.
Stanza 1
Line 1 Awa: away
Line 3 gie: give
Line 4 weel-stockit: well-stocked
Stanza 2
Line 3 bonie green knowes: lovely green knolls (hills)
Line 4 Ilk: each; deckit: decked; yowes: ewes
Stanza 3
Line 1 e'en: even
Line 4 langer: longer; mair: more; carest: caressed