MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson... The Christian Ambassador - Page 221865Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...cays, 'Every reader of discernment will see they are by an In* feriorhand.' JOHN Anderson, my jo,r John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bounie brow was brent ;• But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snow ; But blessings... | |
 | Montgomery Maxwell - 1845 - 378 pages
...the republic, whilst the once FLOWERS. 211 fair Teresa was from another, and she might well sing :— John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent...Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty prow, John Anderson my jo.... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...archness in his brow, ' Pray, Sir, why did not then your father make, A Gentleman of you ?' JOHN ANDERSON. JOHN ANDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent...Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw : But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...some thric n Liverpool, i< settled with her hushand in New York, North America. JOHN ANDERSON MY JO. JOHN ANDERSON, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your honnic hrow was hrent ; But now your hrow is held, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But hlessings... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1846 - 120 pages
...I would give whole years of life To dream such dreams as thine ! 08) JJ'IDHH &H1DIE!R§DH KIT JdD. JOHN ANDERSON my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; Bat now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow,... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1846 - 298 pages
...smooth forehead. In this sense we find it in the well-known Scotch song, John Anderson, my Jo — " John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent...were like the raven ; Your bonnie brow was brent." among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum (No. 1098), has to brere, or to be brered, as corn just... | |
 | 1847 - 910 pages
...from the shore. Its homeward prow to hail. We cast our lines in Largo bay, &c JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO JOHN ANDERSON, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, John, Your bonnie brow was brent ! But DOW your head's turn'cl bald, John, Your locks are like the... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...brought to my mind the well-known lines of Burns : ' John Anderson my jo, John, When we were lirst acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie...now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. 'John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...shore, \\iil that's all the use of a guinea. JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO. Music— at ZT Purday's, 45, Uolborn. JOHN Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent,...Your locks were like the raven Your bonnie brow was brcu But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow : Yet, blessings on your frosty... | |
 | 1848 - 216 pages
...let na that affright us, John, Our hearts were ne'er our foe, While in innocent delight we've lived, John Anderson, my Jo. " John Anderson, my Jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither, And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither. Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand... | |
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