 
            Rockin' Through The Rye
Bill Haley & His Comets
(Trad arr. Bill Haley & Arrett Keefer, DECCA 29948, 1956)
If a body digs a body
 Rockin' through the rye
 If a body digs a body
 Need a body cry?
 Every lassie digs a laddie
 Nane they say, hey I
 Yet all the lassies rock with me
 When rockin' through the rye
The Campbells are rockin' the blues away
 The Campbells are rockin' the blues away
 There ain't stoppin' if, man they're boppin'
 Gang a wa, gang a wa, go man go
 Bonny me lassie is on the beat
 Bonny me lassie is rockin' reet
 I'd be laddie it's a fittin' and I had it
 Gang a wa, let's go rockin' in the rye
 Maxwelton's braes are bonny
 And the blue bells lost their bloom
 They were jumpin' in the heather
 Like a knocked out feather
 Hey, dig that crazy news!
The Campbells are rockin' the blues away
 The Campbells are rockin' the blues away
 Man let's give it up, give it up, give it up
 Gang a wa, let's go rockin' in the rye
Maxwelton's braes are bonny
 And the blue bells lost  their bloom
 They were jumpin' in the heather
 Like a knocked out feather
 They dig that crazy news! Hoot!
 The Campbells are rockin' the blues away
 The Campbells are rockin' the blues away
 Man let's live it up, live it up, live it up
 Gang a wa, let's go rockin' in the rye
 Gang a wa, let's go rockin' in the rye
 Gang a wa, let's go rockin' in the rye
Based on an 18th century minstrel song written by
 Robert Burns. Melody: "Common' Frae The Town"
COMIN' THRO' THE RYE
O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body
 Jenny's seldom dry
 She draigl't a' her petticoatie
 Comin' thro' the rye!
[Chorus]
 Comin' thro' the rye, poor body
 Comin' thro' the rye
 She draigl't a' her petticoatie
 Comin' thro' the rye!
Gin a body meet a body
 Comin' thro' the rye
 Gin a body kiss a body
 Need a body cry?
Gin a body meet a body
 Comin' thro' the glen
 Gin a body kiss a body
 Need the warl' ken?
Gin a body meet a body
 Comin' thro' the grain
 Gin a body kiss a body
 The thing's a body's ain
Ev'ry Lassie has her laddie
 Nane, they say, have I
 Yet all the lads they smile on me
 When comin' thro' the rye
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