217. Song—The Lad they ca' Jumpin John
Read '217. Song—The Lad they ca' Jumpin John' by 'Robert Burns' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
217. Song—The Lad they ca' Jumpin John by Robert Burns
HER daddie forbad, her minnie forbad
Forbidden she wadna be:
She wadna trow’t the browst she brew’d,
Wad taste sae bitterlie.
Chorus.—The lang lad they ca’Jumpin John
Beguil’d the bonie lassie,
The lang lad they ca’Jumpin John
Beguil’d the bonie lassie.
A cow and a cauf, a yowe and a hauf,
And thretty gude shillin’s and three;
A vera gude tocher, a cotter-man’s dochter,
The lass wi’ the bonie black e’e.
The lang lad, &c.
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