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Air : " This is no my ain house."
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* The old song of " This is no my ain house " was written by Ramsay prior to 1724. It is based upon a much older song beginning : —
O this is no my ain house,
BIy a.in house, my ain house ;
this is no my ain house,
1 ken^y the biggin o't.
For bread and cheese are my door cheeks, etc.
{See Stenhoase's Tllastrations, p. 208.) The air with its title appears in the Crockat MS. Music Book, 1709, and in Oswald's Pocket Companion^
Bk. vii., commenced circa 1759. It is introduced into Aird's Sdection of Scotch Airs, lik. ii., 1782, and in Calliope : or. The Vocal Enchantress,
1788, it is given with verses beginning, " V\_hen tlie men a-courting came." Hogg also gives it in his Jacobite Relics, Ser. I., 1816, to-
Jacobitical verses which retain a portion of the old chorus. Burns wrote '* O this is no my ain lassie " in July, 1795, for George TUomson's
Collection of .Scottish Airs, vol. ii.