To the Weavers Gin Ye Go
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John Renfro Davis
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Robert Burns wrote this circa 1788. He wrote another tune about weavers, The Gallant Weaver. And keeping with the Weavers theme (though not by Burns) there is The Calton Weaver.

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My heart was ance as blythe and free
As simmer days were lang,
But a bonnie westlin weaver lad
Has gart me change my sang.

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To the weaver's gin ye go fair maid,
To the weaver's gin ye go,
I rede ye richt, gang ne'er at nicht,
To the weaver's gin ye go.

My mither sent me to the toon
To warp a plaiden wab;
But the weary weary warpin o't
Has gart me sigh and sab.

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A bonnie westlin weaver lad
Sat workin at his loom
He took my heart as wi a net
In every knot and thrum

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I sat beside my warpin-wheel
And ay I ca'd it roun'
But every shot and every knock
my heart it gae a stoun.

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The moon was sinkin in the west
Wi' visage pale and wan,
As my bonnie westlin weaver lad
Convoy'd me thro' the glen.

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But what was said or what was done
Shame fa' me gin I tell
But Oh, I fear the kintra soon
Will ken as weel's mysel.

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