The Book of Scottish Song/Go to Berwick, Johnnie

by John Hamilton (in part)

Go to Berwick, Johnnie.

[The old tune of "Go to Berwick, Johnnie," is usually sung to a nursery doggrel, beginning,

Go, go, go,
Go to Berwick, Johnnie;
Thou shalt have the horse,
And I shall have the poney.

The following verses are from Johnson's Museum, and are said to have been partly written by John Hamilton, music-seller, Edinburgh.]

Go to Berwick, Johnnie;
Bring her frae the Border;
Yon sweet bonnie lassie,
Let her ga'e nae farther.
English loons will twine ye
O' the lovely treasure;
But we'll let them ken,
A sword wi' them we'll measure.

Go to Berwick, Johnnie,
And regain your honour;
Drive them ower the Tweed,
And show our Scottish banner.
I am Rob the king,
And ye are Jock, my brither;
But, before we lose her,
We'll a' there thegither.

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