Here's A Health. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABCDEBE AAFGHIJI AAJKJJJJ C AAJFAABC| Tune Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
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| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| And wha winna wish guid luck to our cause | B |
| May never guid luck be their fa' | C |
| It's guid to be merry and wise | D |
| It's guid to be honest and true | E |
| It's good to support Caldonia'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 of the clan | F |
| Altho' that his band be sma' | G |
| May liberty meet wi' success | H |
| May prudence protect her frae evil | I |
| May tyrants and tyranny tine in 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 Norland laddie | J |
| That lives at the lug o' the law | K |
| Here's freedom to him that wad read | J |
| Here's freedom to him that wad write | J |
| There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard | J |
| But they wham the truth wad indite | J |
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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 a health to them that's awa | A |
| Here's a health to them that's awa | A |
| And wha winna wish guid luck to our cause | B |
| May never guid luck be their fa' | C |
Robert Burns
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