%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent SONG / INTITULED / Fy gar rub her o're wi Strae. / An Italian Canzone (of seven hundred Years standing) imitated in braid Scots. Ramsay, Allan University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/16/2014 34273

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T183819 1 NONE Fy Gar Rub Her Over GIN ye meet a bonny Lassie / Gie her a Kiss and let her gae, Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her. / Fy gar rub her o're wi Strae. / But if she be a bonny Lassie, / Give her a Kiss and let her gae. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 47 An Excellent SONG / INTITULED / Fy gar rub her o're wi Strae. / An Italian Canzone (of seven hundred Years standing) imitated in braid Scots. An Excellent SONG ENTITLED Fy gar rub her over with Straw. An Italian Canzone (of seven hundred Years standing) imitated in broad Scots. Ramsay, Allan ?-?

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(1) GIN ye meet a bonny Lassie Gie her a Kiss and let her gae, But if she be a dirty Hussy, Fy gar rub her o're wi Strae. Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her. Fy gar rub her o're wi Strae. But if she be a bonny Lassie, Give her a Kiss and let her gae. [(2)] Be sure ye dinna quat the Grip, Of ilka Joy when ye are young, Before auld Age your Vitals nip, And lay ye twafald o're a Rung. Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her, o're wi Strae, But if she be a bonny Lassrie, give her a Kiss and let her gae. (3) Sweet Youths a blyth and hartsom Time, then Lads and Lasses while it's May Gae pow the Gowan in it's Prime, before it wither and Decay, Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her o're wi Strae. But if she be a bonny Lassie, give her a Kiss and let her gae. (4) Watch the fast Minutes of Delyte, When Jeany speaks beneath her Breath And Kisses laying a the Wyte On you if she kepp ony Skath, Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her Fy gar rub her o're wi Strae, But if she be a bony Lassie give her a Kiss and ler her gae.
(5) Haith ye're ill bred, she'll smilling say, ye'll worry me ye greedy Rook, Syn frae your Arms she'll rin away, and hide her self in some dark Noo[k] Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her, fy gar rub he o're wi Strae, But if she be a bonny Lassie. give her a Kiss and let her [gae.] (6) Her Laugh will lead you to the Place, Where lys the Happiness ye want, And plainly tells you to your Face, Nineteen Naysays are haff a Grant. Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her o're wi Strae, But if she be a bonny Lassie, Give her a Kiss and let her gae, (7) Now to her heaving Bosom cling, and sweetly toolie for a Kiss. Frae her fair Finger whop a Ring, as Taken of a future Bless. Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her o're wi Strae, But if she be a bonny Lassie, give her a Kiss and let her gae, (8) These Bennisons I'm very sure, are of the God's Indulgent Grant, Then Surrly Carles, whisht forbear, to Plague us with your whining Cant. Fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her, fy gar rub her o're wi Strae, But if she be a bonny Lassie, Give her a Kiss and let her gae.
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