Chorus.Blythe, blythe and merry was she,
Blythe was she but and ben;
Blythe by the banks of Earn,
And blythe in Glenturit glen.
BY 1 Oughtertyre grows the aik,
On Yarrow banks the birken shaw;
But Phemie was a bonier lass
Than braes o Yarrow ever saw.
Blythe, blythe, &c.
Her looks were like a flowr in May,
Her smile was like a simmer morn:
She tripped by the banks o Earn,
As lights a bird upon a thorn.
Blythe, blythe, &c.
Her bonie face it was as meek
As ony lamb upon a lea;
The evening sun was neer sae sweet,
As was the blink o Phemies ee.
Blythe, blythe, &c.
The Highland hills Ive wanderd wide,
And oer the Lawlands I hae been;
But Phemie was the blythest lass
That ever trod the dewy green.
Blythe, blythe, &c.
Note 1. Written at Oughtertyre. Phemie is Miss Euphemia Murray, a cousin of Sir William Murray of Oughtertyre.Lang. [back