Blythe Was She

by Robert Burns

Versions of Blythe Was She include:

• "Blyth, blyth, blyth was ſhe" from The Tea-Table Miscellany, Volume IV (Ed. 1) (1737), compiled and edited by Allan Ramsay.
  • Republished as "Blyth, blyth, blyth was ſhe" from The Tea-Table Miscellany (Ed. 10) (1740), compiled and edited by Allan Ramsay.
• "Blithe was she" from the chapbook Bruce's Address (c. 1804-1819).
• "Andrew wi' his cutty gun" from the chapbook Bart'lemy fair (c. 1816).
• "Andro and his cutty gun" from the chapbook Bessy Bell & Mary Gray (1818).
• "Blythe Was She" from the chapbook Young Lochinvar (c. 1820-1830).
• "Andro wi' his cutty gun" from the chapbook Down the burn Davie (1823).
• "Andro Wi' His Cutty Gun" from the chapbook The Flowers of the Forest (c. 1825).
• "Andrew and his cutty gun" from the chapbook Four excelent songs (1826).
• "Blythe Was She" from the chapbook Young Lochinvar (1828).
• "Andro and his cutty gun" from The Book of Scottish Song (1843), edited by Alexander Whitelaw.
• "Blythe Was She" from the chapbook Young Lochinvar (c. 1850-1860)
• "Blythe was she", in The Musical Charmer (1819), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
• "Blithe was she", in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887), edited by Alexander Smith
• "Andrew and his Cutty Gun", in The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1911), edited and republished by The Burns Federation.