Love
It Is the Bonny Butcher Lad
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
It is the bonny butcher lad
That wears the sleeves of blue,
He sells the flesh on Saturday,
On Friday that he slew.
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Codex Note
From The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
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Scott, Walter. “It Is the Bonny Butcher Lad.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/156/.
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Scott, Walter. “It Is the Bonny Butcher Lad.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/156/.
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