A Health To Them That's Awa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEBE AAFGHIJI AAJKJJJJ AAGAJLJL AAJFMJJJ| HERE'S a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| And wha winna wish gude luck to our cause | B |
| May never gude luck be their fa' | C |
| It's gude to be merry and wise | D |
| It's gude to be honest and true | E |
| It's gude to support Caledonia's cause | B |
| And bide by the buff and the blue | E |
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| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to Charlie the chief o' the clan | F |
| Altho' that his band be but sma' | G |
| May Liberty meet wi' success | H |
| May Prudence protect her frae evil | I |
| May tyrants and tyranny tine i' the mist | J |
| And wander their way to the devil | I |
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| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to Tammie the Norlan' laddie | J |
| That lives at the lug o' the law | K |
| Here's freedom to them that wad read | J |
| Here's freedom to them that wad write | J |
| There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard | J |
| But they whom the truth would indite | J |
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| Here's a Health to them that's awa | A |
| An' here's to them that's awa | A |
| Here's to Maitland and Wycombe let wha doesna like 'em | G |
| Be built in a hole in the wa' | A |
| Here's timmer that's red at the heart | J |
| Here's fruit that is sound at the core | L |
| And may he be that wad turn the buff and blue coat | J |
| Be turn'd to the back o' the door | L |
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| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's chieftain M'Leod a chieftain worth gowd | J |
| Tho' bred amang mountains o' snaw | F |
| Here's friends on baith sides o' the firth | M |
| And friends on baith sides o' the Tweed | J |
| And wha wad betray old Albion's right | J |
| May they never eat of her bread | J |
Robert Burns
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A Health To Them That's Awa is a poem by Robert Burns. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.