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Volume VI, song 598, page 618 - 'Tell me Jessy tell me why' - Scanned from the 1853 edition of the 'Scots Musical Museum', James Johnson and Robert Burns (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1853)
Verse 1: 'Tell me Jessy tell me why My fond suit you still deny Is your bosom cold as snow did you never feel for woe. Can you hear without a sigh Him complain who for you could die, If you ever shed a tear Hear me Jessy hear O hear.'
The 'Scots Musical Museum' is the most important of the numerous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century collections of Scottish song. When the engraver James Johnson sta…
Subject
- poetry
- Robert Burns
- Poetry
Type of item
- archive item
Date
- 1787-01-01 - 1803-12-31
- 1787-01-01/1803-12-31
Subject
- poetry
- Robert Burns
- Poetry
Type of item
- archive item
Date
- 1787-01-01 - 1803-12-31
- 1787-01-01/1803-12-31
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Places
- Scotland; United Kingdom
Identifier
- http://burnsscotland.com/items/v/volume-vi,-song-598,-page-618-tell-me-jessy-tell-me-why
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- United Kingdom
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First time published on Europeana
- 2015-01-27T14:57:23.672Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T17:50:58.264Z