Annotation:Johnny and Mary

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JOHNNY AND MARY. Scottish, Air (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. A love song first printed in the second volume of David Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs (1776), with both music and words appearing together in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1 (1787). It was much anthologist thereafter in songsters and issued on broadsheets.

Down the burn and thro' the mead,
His golden locks wav'd o'er his brow;
Johnny lilting, tun'd his reed,
And Mary wip'd her bonny mou';
Dear she loo'd the well-known song,
While her Johnny, blythe and bonny,
Sung her praise the whole day long.

Chorus:
Down the burn and thro' the mead,
His golden locks wav'd o'er his brow;
Johnny lilting, tun'd his reed,
And Mary wip'd her bonny mou'.