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I’m O’er Young to Marry Yet

[ Roud 6142 ; G/D 4:900 ; Ballad Index GrD4900 ; Bodleian Roud 6142 ; trad.]

Katie Mackenzie sang I’m O’er Young to Marry Yet in 2009 on her duo Pūr with Shona Donaldson’s album of songs of Robert Burns in Scots and Gaelic, The Lassies’ Reply.

Barbara Dymock sang a medley of the three songs Och Hey Johnny Lad, I’m O’er Young to Marry Yet, and Naebody Comin’ to Marry Me on her 2011 CD Hilbert’s Hotel.

Robyn Stapleton sang a medley of the three songs I’m O’er Young, Hey Ca’ Thro’ Brose & Butter, together with Marion Dewar’s Jig, on her 2017 CD Songs of Robert Burns.

Lyrics

Robin Stapleton sings I’ O’er Young

I’m o’er young, I’m o’er young,
I’m o’er young to marry yet.
I’m o’er young, ’twad be a sin
To tak me frae my mammy yet.

I am my mammy’s ae bairn
Wi’ unco folk I weary,
And lying in a man’s bed
I’m fley’d it mak me eerie.

My mammy coft a new gown,
The kirk maun hae the gracing o’t.
Were I to lie wi’ you, kind Sir,
I’m feared ye’d spoil the lacing o’t.

Hallowmass is come and gane,
The nights are lang in winter.
And you an’ I in ae bed
In trowth, I dare na venture.

Fu’ loud an’ shill the frosty wind
Blaws thro’ the leafless timmer,
But if ye come this gate again
I’ll aulder be gin simmer.