"I Love My Jean," Poem, undated

I Love My Jean

Tune—Miss Admiral Gordans Strathspy

In the Spring of 1788 Burns resolved

to acknowledge Jean Amour as his wife,

Until a proper house should be built

at Ellisland she was to remain at

Mauchline, with the only surviving child

Burns living in a mean hovel alone

on his farm.

Of a’ the airts the wind can blow.

I dearly like the West.

For there the bonny lassie lives

The lassie I lo’e best:

There’s wild woods grow and rivers roll

And many a hill between.

But day and night my fancy’s flight.

Is ever with my Jean

I see her in the dewy flowers.

I see her sweet and fair.

I hear her in the tuneful birds.

I hear her charm the air.

There’s not a bonny flower that spring

By fountain, shaw, or green,

Theres not a bonny bird that sings

But minds me o’ my Jean.

DATABASE CONTENT

(2504)

DL0524.039

Letters

186X

Song Lyrics “I Love My Jean” Associated Reuben Haworth, Jr., 1st New Hampshire Cavalry

Tags: Love, Marriages, Music, Nature

SOURCES

"I Love My Jean," Poem, undated, DL0524.039, Nau Collection

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