Go To Berwick, Johnnie
Song
Go To Berwick, Johnnie is an old tune usually sung to a nursery doggrel, beginning,Go, go, go,
Go to Berwick, Johnnie;
Thou shalt have the horse,
And I shall have the poney.
Related Scottish Country Dances
Berwick JohnnieThe following verses are from Johnson's Museum, and are said to have been partly written by John Hamilton, music-seller, Edinburgh.
Go To Berwick, Johnnie Song
Go to Berwick, Johnnie;
Bring her frae the Border;
Yon sweet bonnie lassie,
Let her ga'e nae farther.
English loons will twine ye
O' the lovely treasure;
But we'll let them ken,
A sword wi' them we'll measure.
Go to Berwick, Johnnie,
And regain your honour;
Drive them ower the Tweed,
And show our Scottish banner.
I am Rob the king,
And ye are Jock, my brither;
But, before we lose her,
We'll a' there thegither.
Go To Berwick, Johnnie Song Video
Go To Berwick, Johnnie Song - Information Video
Go To Berwick, Johnnie - From Page 80 Of 'The Glen Collection Of Printed Music, Scotish Minstrel', 1823-1824
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