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GLOOMY WINTERS NOW AWA.
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Tow'ring o'er the Newton woods,
Lav'rocks fan the snaw-white clouds ;
Siller saughs, wi' downy buds,
Adorn the banks sae briery, 0.
Round the sylvan fairy nooks,
Feath'ry breckans fringe the rocks,
'Neath the brae the burnie jouks,
And ilka thing is cbeerie, 0.
Trees may bud, and birds may sing,
Flowers may bloom, and verdure spring,
Joy to me they canna bring,
Unless wi' thee, my dearie, 0.
" Gloomy Winter's now awa." The melody appears in Johnson's Museum, No. 594, differing in several notes
from the air published as " Lord Balgome's Favourite, a very old Highland tune," in Gow's Fourth Collection of
Reels, &c. The set in Gow's collection is the better of the two, and has been adopted in this work, with one or two
changes made by the arranger. In Gow's set, the G at the close is natural ; and that suits the antiquity of the
air better. In Johnson's set, the G is sharp. We learn, — vol. vi., page 508 of Illustrations of Johnson's Musical
Museum, — that Mr. Alexander Campbell, the editor of Albyn's Anthology, claimed this tune as his own composition.
The question remains undecided between Messrs. Gow and Campbell. The words here given were composed by
the late Robert Tannahill of Paisley, who died 17th May 1810, in the thirty-sixth year of his age. See Appendix.