The Book of Scottish Song/Where Gadie rins

Where Gadie rins.

[From "Poems and Songs, by John Imlah," London, 1841, 12mo.—Gadie is a rivulet, and Bennachie a mountain, in Aberdeenshire.]

O! gin I were where Gadie rins,
Where Gadie rins—where Gadie rins,
O gin I were where Gadie rins,
By the foot o' Bennachie!

I've roam'd by Tweed—I've roam'd by Tay,
By border Nith and highland Spey,
But dearer far to me than they,
The braes o' Bennachie.

When blade and blossoms sprout in spring,
And bid the burdies wag the wing,
They blithely bob, and soar, and sing,
By the foot o' Bennachie.

When simmer cleeds the varied scene,
Wi' licht o' gowd and leaves o' green,
I fain wad be where aft I've been,
At the foot o' Bennachie.

When autumn's yellow sheaf is shorn,
And barn-yards stored wi' stooks o' corn,
'Tis blythe to toom the clyack horn,
At the foot o' Bennachie!

When winter winds blaw sharp and shrill,
O'er icy burn and sheeted hill,
The ingle neuk is gleesome still,
At the foot of Bennachie.

Though few to welcome me remain,
Though a' I loved be dead and gane,
I'll back, though I should live alane,
To the foot of Bennachie.

O! gin I wers where Gadie rins,
Where Gadie rins — where Gadie rins,
O! gin I were where Gadie rins,
By the foot o' Bennachie!

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