Gude Ale Keeps the Heart Aboon (Poem by Robert Burns)

Gude Ale Keeps the Heart Aboon

By Robert Burns

(1)

O gude ale comes, and gude ale goes,

Gude ale gars me sell my hose,

Sell my hose, and pawn my shoon,

Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.

(2)

I had sax owsen in a pleugh,

They drew a’ weel eneugh,

I sell’d them a’ just ane by ane;

Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.

(3)

Gude ale hands me bare and busy,

Gars me moop wi’ the servant hizzie,

Stand i’ the stool when I hae done,

Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.

    O gude ale comes, &c.

NOTE:

These verses are in the museum; the first two are old, the concluding one is by Burns.