The Book of Scottish Song/Where Gadie rins

Where Gadie rins.

[From "Poems and Songs, by John Imlah," London, 1841, 12mo.—Gadie is a rivulet, and Bennachie a mountain, in Aberdeenshire.]

⁠O! gin I were where Gadie rins,
⁠Where Gadie rins—where Gadie rins,
⁠O gin I were where Gadie rins,
⁠By the foot o' Bennachie!

I've roam'd by Tweed—I've roam'd by Tay,
By border Nith and highland Spey,
But dearer far to me than they,
⁠The braes o' Bennachie.

When blade and blossoms sprout in spring,
And bid the burdies wag the wing,
They blithely bob, and soar, and sing,
⁠By the foot o' Bennachie.

When simmer cleeds the varied scene,
Wi' licht o' gowd and leaves o' green,
I fain wad be where aft I've been,
⁠At the foot o' Bennachie.

When autumn's yellow sheaf is shorn,
And barn-yards stored wi' stooks o' corn,
'Tis blythe to toom the clyack horn,
⁠At the foot o' Bennachie!

When winter winds blaw sharp and shrill,
O'er icy burn and sheeted hill,
The ingle neuk is gleesome still,
⁠At the foot of Bennachie.

Though few to welcome me remain,
Though a' I loved be dead and gane,
I'll back, though I should live alane,
⁠To the foot of Bennachie.

O! gin I wers where Gadie rins,
Where Gadie rins — where Gadie rins,
O! gin I were where Gadie rins,
⁠By the foot o' Bennachie!

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