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402 CCCCLIV. OUR GOODMAN CAME HAME AT e'kX.
inn to crack a bottle with them. They soon made him very
merry ; and on being requested to favour them with the song,
he readily complied, and sung it with great glee. Mr Clarke
immediately took down the notes, and arranged the song for
the Museum, in which work the words and music first ap-
peared together in print. Mr Anderson, music engraver in
Edinburgh, who served his apprenticeship with Mr Johnson,
informs me, that Geikie died about four days after the tune
was taken down.
Ritson copied the words from Herd's into his own Collec-
tion ; but he could not discover the music when that work was
printed in 1794.
CCCCLV.
SIR JOHN MALCOLM.
This curious, ironical, and burlesque old song, beginning
«' O keep ye weel frae Sir John Malcolm," was recovered by
Yair, and printed in the second volume of his " Charmer"" in
1751. It also appears in Herd's Collection in 1776. The
tune is to be found in Aird's Collection, and several others.
It is evidently the same melody with that called *' O fare ye
weel my auld Wife." See the song, No 354, in the fourth
volume of the Museum.
The song is said to have been composed on a former Ba-
ronet of Lochore and his friend Mr Don, who, it is alleged,
rather annoyed their bottle companions with the history of
their adventures after the glass began to circulate.
CCCCLVI.
MY BONNY LIZAE BAILLIE.
This old ballad appears in Herd's Collection in ] 776, with
the following introductory stanza, which was omitted in the
Museum,
" Lizae Baillie's to Gartantan gane
To see her sister Jean,
And there she's met wi' Duncan Graeme,
And he's convoy'd her hame."
The charming old simple melody of one strain, to which
the verses are adapted in the Museum, was communicated by