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


Tags: Love, Marriages, Music, Nature

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