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Page xxxi
... composed when he was suffering from a pressure of misfortunes , he says , " Twas at this same time I set about composing an air in the old Scotch style . I am not musical scholar enough to prick down my tune properly , so it can never ...
... composed when he was suffering from a pressure of misfortunes , he says , " Twas at this same time I set about composing an air in the old Scotch style . I am not musical scholar enough to prick down my tune properly , so it can never ...
Page xlii
... composed by a lady friend . Thomson suggested another melody , which Burns disapproved , and to console the publisher he said to him that the measure of the air was so common he could find five hundred English songs for his proposed ...
... composed by a lady friend . Thomson suggested another melody , which Burns disapproved , and to console the publisher he said to him that the measure of the air was so common he could find five hundred English songs for his proposed ...
Page xlv
... composed by one of his friends experimenting on the black notes of the harpsichord . When sending the original version to Alexander Cunningham , he tells him that it is intended to be sung to a strathspey or reel entitled ...
... composed by one of his friends experimenting on the black notes of the harpsichord . When sending the original version to Alexander Cunningham , he tells him that it is intended to be sung to a strathspey or reel entitled ...
Page xlvi
... composed . The character of the song was suggested to Burns by the title of the air , and he enthusiastically says ' if I was charmed with the tune , I was in raptures with the title you have given it , and taking up the idea , have ...
... composed . The character of the song was suggested to Burns by the title of the air , and he enthusiastically says ' if I was charmed with the tune , I was in raptures with the title you have given it , and taking up the idea , have ...
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... composed , Oswald does not make the least claim to the tune.-R. B. ' [ No. 9. ' Saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? ' quo ' she , ' Saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? O saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? ' quo ' she ; ' Saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? Wi ' his blue ...
... composed , Oswald does not make the least claim to the tune.-R. B. ' [ No. 9. ' Saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? ' quo ' she , ' Saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? O saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? ' quo ' she ; ' Saw ye Johnnie cummin ' ? Wi ' his blue ...
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Allan Allan Ramsay amang Auld lang syne ballad banks beautiful Blacklock blythe Bremner's British Museum broadside Burns wrote Burns's chorus Collection of Scots composed composition copy Cromek Dainty Davie dance dearie Dick's Burns Earl Edinburgh edition eighteenth century English entitled frae George Thomson hame Herd's Scots Songs Highland laddie Interleaved Museum Jacobite James John Johnie Johnson known lady lament lassie Lord manuscript Mary McGibbon's Scots Tunes melodies Merry Muses Miss music of Scotland musician notes o'er old song original Orpheus Caledonius Oswald's Companion Perth Musical Miscellany Poems poet poetry printed published Ramsay Ramsay's Miscellany Reels Riddell Riddell's Robert Burns Roslin Castle Saw ye says Scotch Tunes Scotland Scots Musical Museum Scottish music sing stanza Strathspeys sung sweet thee thou tradition Tytler vernacular verse and air weel writing written Yair's Charmer
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Page ix - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 15 - His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again ? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like
Page 9 - For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne! Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne ? And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp, And surely I'll be mine, And we'll tak a cup o...
Page 48 - MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo.
Page 9 - Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to min' ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
Page 103 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green ; There's not a bonie bird that sings, But minds me o
Page 46 - And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Page 102 - They'll ne'er make a tempest like that in my mind; Though loudest of thunder on louder waves roar, That's naething like leaving my love on the shore. To leave thee behind me my heart is sair...
Page 48 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Page 120 - THERE was a jovial beggar, He had a wooden leg, Lame from his cradle, And forced for to beg. And a begging we will go, we'll go, we'll go; And a begging we will go...