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Fare Thee Well Rabbie

from The Treehouse of Memory & Regret by jimeddy

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My tribute to Robert Burns.

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He enchanted us with tales o’ rashies green

His lassie love unequaled to this day

A red red rose lined each winding boreen

Of sweet nature he would always have his say

Fare thee well Rabbie, fare thee well!

Though daily gang aft a-glay our plans

Our auld acquaintance held closely to heart

We rejoice both with strangers and our clans

With bumpers high he did express his joy

For honored friends, and poets of the fields

A ploughman’s view since he was but a boy

His language to this day its power wields

Fare thee well Rabbie, fare thee well!

Each Burns Night we proudly raise full glasses

The greatest Scot of all we do salute

Young and old, the laddies and the lasses.

Bridge: His rattlin’ roarin’ ways cut short his living

Aye fond kiss for each mother of his bairns

A heart obsessed with taking and with giving

His life was marked by joy, and not by cairns

The Westlin Winds still bring the autumn nearer

The banks and braes ripe under harvest moon

And never was a poem of song sung dearer

Than your serenade upon the bonnie doon.

Fare thee well Rabbie, fare thee well!

Though daily gang aft aglay our plans

Our auld acquaintance held closely to heart

We rejoice both with strangers and our clans

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from The Treehouse of Memory & Regret, released March 25, 2024

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jimeddy Ann Arbor, Michigan

I no longer trade time for money, so I'm a lucky guy. Songwriter, music collector (at a pathological level); supporter of independent artists of all stripes. Open mic enthusiast, international traveler every chance I get. Forward in All Directions!

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