The Book of Scottish Song/Twine weel the plaiden

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Twine weel the plaiden.

[This song cannot be traced in any of the earlier collections. It appears, however, in Johnson's Museum, vol. I. 1787. There is a plaintive old air given in Oswald's collection, (1735-42,) wife the title, "The lassie lost her silken snood."]

O, I ha'e lost my silken snood,
That tied my hair sae yellow;
I've gi'en my heart to the lad I loo'd,
He was a gallant fellow.
And twine it weel, my bonnie dow,
And twine it weel the plaiden;
The lassie lost her silken snood,
In pa'ing o' the breckan.

He praised my een sae bonnie blue,
Sae lily-white my skin, O,
And syne he prie'd my bonnie mou",
And said it was nae sin, O.
And twine it weel, &c.

But he has left the lass he loo'd,
His own true love forsaken;
Which gars me sair to greet the snood,
I lost amang the breckan.
And twine it weel, &c.

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