There's my thumb (My sweetest May, let love incline thee)

For works with similar titles, see There's my thumb.

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There's my thumb
by Allan Ramsay

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The original words to the old Scottish song "There's my thumb" appear to be lost; these lyrics were first published in the Tea-Table Miscellany in 1724. Another set of lyrics, believed to also be Ramsay's, can be seen at There's my thumb (Betty, early gone a Maying).

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Versions of There's my thumb include:

"There's my Thumb I'll ne'er beguile Thee" in A New Garland (1780)
"There's my thumb I'll ne'er beguile thee" in Lovely Molly of the county of Down (1790)
"There's my thumb" in The Book of Scottish Song (1843)