Seven love songs/Ane and twenty, Tam

by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

For other versions of this work, see O, for ane and twenty, Tam!.

Ane and twenty, Tam;

 

And O for ane and twenty, Tam,
 And hey sweet ane and twenty, Tam!
I’ll learn my kin a ratllin sang,
 If I saw ane and twenty, Tam.

They snool me sair and haud me down,
 And gar me look like bluntie, Tam;
But three short years will soon wheel round,
 And then comes ane and twenty, Tam.
     And O, &c.

A gleib o’ land, a claut o’ gear,
 Was left me by my aunty, Tam;
At kith or kin I needna speer,
 Gin I saw ane and twenty, Tam.
     And O, &c.

They’ll hae me wed a wealthy coof,
 Tho I myself hae plenty, Tam;
But hear’st thou laddie, there‘s my loof,
 I‘m thine at ane and twenty, Tam.
     And O, &c.

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