Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Robert Burns
Canonical path: /robert-burns/jumpin-john
Related lyric paths: 6
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Jumpin John
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Jumpin John
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Her daddie forbad, her minnie forbad;
Forbidden she wadna be:
She wadna trow't, the browst she brew'd
Wad taste sae bitterlie!
ch. The lang lad they ca' Jumpin John
Beguil'd the bonie Lassie!
The lang lad they ca' Jumpin John
Beguil'd the bonie Lassie!
A cow and a cauf, a yowe and a hauf,
And thretty guid shillins and three:
A vera guid tocher, a cotter-man's dochter,
The lass with the bonie black e'e.
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Robert Burns performs "Jumpin John", and this lyric page sits inside the Robert Burns catalog on LyroVerse.
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