 Come all ye jolly shepherds That whistle through the glen, I'll tell ye of a secret That courtiers dinna ken : What is the greatest bliss That the tongue o' man can name ? 'Tis to woo a bonnie lassie When the kye comes hame.  Songs - Page 51by James Hogg - 1831 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Folk songs - 1894 - 244 pages
...tapmost bough, Oh, a hap - py bird na keu. What of down : 'T Is beis he ! Then he — 1 — i Pi>^ is the greatest bliss That the tongue o' man can name? Tis to woo a bon-nie las-sie When the neath the spreading birch, In the dell ivith-out a name, Wi' a bon-nie, bon... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - Scotland - 1913 - 324 pages
...Yet, rich in kindest, truest love, We'll tent our flocks by Gala Water." While Hogg sings — "Come, all ye jolly shepherds. That whistle through the glen ¡ I'll tell ye of a secret, That courtier's dinna ken. * Wliat is the greatest bliss That the tongue o' man can name? 'Tis to woo a... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - English language - 1897 - 368 pages
..."A Lost Day." EXAMPLE (3). Cume, all ye jolly shepherds That whistle through the glen, I'll tell you of a secret That courtiers dinna ken : What is the greatest bliss That the tongue uf man can name ? 'Tis tfl woo a bonnie lassie When thS kye cfimes hame ! James Hogg — " When the... | |
 | Annick Van den Abbeele - Nuclear medicine - 1897 - 532 pages
...hame, When the kre come* hame, Tween the •* * I "f" _>.. It J .' I J D..9. Cfinrun. ad Hb.'fc Come, all ye jolly shepherds, That whistle through the glen ! I'll tell ye o' a secret That courtiers dinna ken: What is the greatest bliss That the tongue o' man can name? 'Tis... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1898 - 614 pages
...WHEN THE KYE COME HAME. Come, all ye jolly shepherds, That whistle through the glen I I 'll tell ye o' a secret That courtiers dinna ken: What is the greatest...bliss That the tongue o' man can name? 'Tis to woo a bonnie lassie When the kye come hame. When the kye come hame, When the kye come hame,— ' Tween the... | |
 | Helen Wheeler Bassett, Frederick Starr - Folklore - 1898 - 590 pages
...Charlie. WHEN THE KYE COME HAME. Come a' ye Jolly shepherds that whistle thro' the glen, I'll tell ye o' a secret that courtiers dinna ken ; What is the greatest bliss that the tongue o' man can name ? "TLs to woo a bonnie lassie when the kye come hame. b. Caroline. c. Musieu Bainjo. Sung by MISS EVE... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 554 pages
...a terrible affectit way that !" I stood corrected, and have never sung it so again. — HOGG.] COME all ye jolly shepherds That whistle through the glen,...tongue o' man can name ? 'Tis to woo a bonny lassie When the kye comes hame. Chorus. — When the kye comes hame, When the kye comes hame, 'Tween the gloaming... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...a terrible affectit way that I" I stood corrected, and have never sung it BO again. — HOGG.] COME all ye jolly shepherds That whistle through the glen,...tongue o' man can name ? 'Tis to woo a bonny lassie When the kye comes hame. Chorus. — When the kye comes hame, When the kye comes hame, 'Tween the gloaming... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...greatest bliss That the tongue o" man can name?" WHEN THE KYE COME HAME. all ye jolly shepherds \&/ That whistle through the glen, I'll tell ye of a secret...the greatest bliss That the tongue o' man can name f 'Tis to woo a bonny lassie When the kye come hame. When the kye come hame, When the kye come hame,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 434 pages
...a terrible affectit way that 1" I stood corrected, and have never sung it so again. — Hooo.] COME all ye jolly shepherds That whistle through the glen, I'll tell ye of a secret That courtiers din na ken : What is the greatest bliss That the tongue o' man can name ? 'Tis to woo a bonny lassie... | |
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