Songs by Robert Burns

Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars song book

Act Sederunt / O'er the muir

   D
In Edinburgh town they've made a law, 
   Em              A
In En-bra at the Court o' Session,
     D
That standing pricks are fauteors a', 
     Em           A         
And guilty of a high transgression. 

Chorus: 
     D
Act Sederunt o' the Session, 
     Em           A    
Decree't o' the Court o' Session; 
     D          
That standing pricks are fauteors a', 
     Em           A         
And guilty of a high transgression. 

2. And they've provided dungeons deep, 
   Ilk lass has ane in her possession: 
   Until the wretches wail and weep, 
   There shall they lie for their transgression.

O'er the Muir amang the Heather

Comin' through the craigs o' Kyle,
Amang the bonnie bloomin' heather,
There I met a bonnie lassie,
Keepin' a' her ewes thegither.

Chorus:	O'er the muir amang the heather
		O'er the muir amang the heather,
		There I met a bonnie lassie
		Keepin' a' her ewes thegither.

We laid us down upon a bank,
Sae warm and sunnie was the weather;
She left her flocks at large to rove
Amang the bonnie bloomin' heather.

While thus we lay, she sang a sang,
Till echo rang a mile and further
And aye the burden of the sang
Was, O'er the muir amang the heather.

She charmed my heart, and aye sin syne
I couldna' think on ony ither;
By sea and sky! she shall be mine,
The bonnie lass amang the heather.