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194 THE MUSICAL
My Crummie is a ufeful cow,
And me is come of a good kyne ;
Aft has me wet the bairns' mou',
And I am laith that (he mould tyne ;
Get up, gudeman, it is fu' time,
The fun fhines in the lift fae hie ;
Sloth never made a gracious end,
Go tak' your auld cloak about ye.
My cloak was anes a good grey cloak,
When it was fitting for my wear ;
But now it's fcantly worth a groat,
For I have worn't this thirty year ;
Let's fpend the gear that we have won,
We little ken the day we'll die ;
Then I'll be proud, fince I have fworn
To have a new cloak about me.
In days when our King Robert rang,
His trews they coft but ha]f-a-crown ;
He faid they were a groat o'er dear,
And ca'd the taylor thief and lown.
He was the king that wore a crown,
And thou the man of laigh degree,
'Tis pride puts a' the country down,
Sae take thy auld cloak about ye.
Every land has it's ain laugh,
Ilk kind of corn it has it's hool,
I think the warld is a' run wrang,
When ilka wife her man wad rule ;
Do ye not fee Rob, Jock, and Hab,
As they are girded gallantly 1
While I lit hurklen in the afe,
I'll have a new cloak about me.
Gudeman, I wat 'tis thirty years
• Sine? we did ane anither keif;
And we have had between us twa
Of lads and bonny lalfes ten :
My Crummie is a ufeful cow,
And me is come of a good kyne ;
Aft has me wet the bairns' mou',
And I am laith that (he mould tyne ;
Get up, gudeman, it is fu' time,
The fun fhines in the lift fae hie ;
Sloth never made a gracious end,
Go tak' your auld cloak about ye.
My cloak was anes a good grey cloak,
When it was fitting for my wear ;
But now it's fcantly worth a groat,
For I have worn't this thirty year ;
Let's fpend the gear that we have won,
We little ken the day we'll die ;
Then I'll be proud, fince I have fworn
To have a new cloak about me.
In days when our King Robert rang,
His trews they coft but ha]f-a-crown ;
He faid they were a groat o'er dear,
And ca'd the taylor thief and lown.
He was the king that wore a crown,
And thou the man of laigh degree,
'Tis pride puts a' the country down,
Sae take thy auld cloak about ye.
Every land has it's ain laugh,
Ilk kind of corn it has it's hool,
I think the warld is a' run wrang,
When ilka wife her man wad rule ;
Do ye not fee Rob, Jock, and Hab,
As they are girded gallantly 1
While I lit hurklen in the afe,
I'll have a new cloak about me.
Gudeman, I wat 'tis thirty years
• Sine? we did ane anither keif;
And we have had between us twa
Of lads and bonny lalfes ten :
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| Description | A select collection of the most approved Scots, English and Irish songs, set to music Perth: Printed by J. Brown, 1786. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.129 |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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