Logan Water
Logan Water - meaning Summary
Mischief by the Logan Burn
This short, comic lyric recounts a playful, mischievous encounter beside the Logan burn. The speaker describes helping a young woman remove her stockings and shoes, only to be tricked when she gives him a laugh or jest at the end. He then imagines a counterfactual in which he had known what he knows now and would have taken advantage, finishing with a bawdy image of her exposed and leading him toward the church. The tone is colloquial, humorous, and rooted in rural social life and teasing sexual bravado.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Logan burn, the Logan braes, I helped a bonie lassie on wi' her claes; First wi' her stockings an' syne wi' her shoon, But she gied me the glaiks when a' was done. But an I had kend, what I ken now, I was a bang'd her belly fu'; Her belly fu' and her apron up, An' shew'd her the road to the Logan kirk.
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