The Book of Scottish Song/Tibbie Dunbar

by Robert Burns

Tibbie Dunbar.

[Written by Burns, in 1789, for Johnson's Museum, to a tune called Johnnie M'Gill, from the name of its composer, John M'Gill, musician, Girvan, Ayrshire. According to other accounts, the tune is said to be Irish.]

O, wilt thou go wi' me,
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
O, wilt thou go wi' me,
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar?
Wilt thou ride on a horse,
Or be drawn in a car,
Or walk by my side,
O sweet Tibbie Dunbar?

I care na thy daddie,
His lands and his money,
I care na thy kin
Sae high and sae lordly;
But say thou wilt ha'e me
For bettor for waur—
And come in thy coatie,
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar!

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