The Merry Muses of Caledonia/My Auntie Jean
MY AUNTIE JEAN.
Tune—"John Anderson, my jo."
| This fragment is attributed to Burns. In a letter to Samuel Brown, Ballochneil, Kirkoswald (his mother's half-brother), dated May, 1788, he refers to the "Ailsa fowling season," and asks him to procure for him "three or four stones of feathers." |
My auntie Jean held to the shore,
As Ailsa boats cam' back;
And she has coft a feather bed
For twenty and a plack;
And in it she wan fifty mark,
Before a towmond sped;
O! what a noble bargain
Was auntie Jeanie's bed.