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.