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My bonny sweet lass, on the gowany grasSj
Beneath the shellin-hill O,
If I did offence, I'se make ye amends
Before I leave Peggy's mill O.
O the mill, mill O, and the kill, kill O,
And the coggin of the wheel O :
The sack and the sieve, a' that ye maun leave,
And round with a sodger reel O.
THE SODGEPv'S RETURN,
[By BuRXS.]
Aiv^The Mill, Mill 0.
When wild war's deadly blast was blawir,
xVnd gentle peace returning,
Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherle.s>5,
And mony a widow mourning :
I left the lines and tented field.
Where lang I'd been a lodger.
My humble Jinapsack a' my Avealth,
A poor and honest sodger.
\ leal, light heart was in my breast.
My hand unstain'd wi' plunder :
And for fair Scotia, hame again,
I cheery on did wander.
I thought upon the banks o' Coil,
I thought upon my Nancy,
I thought upon the witching smile
That caught my youthful fancy.,
VOL. II. U
My bonny sweet lass, on the gowany grasSj
Beneath the shellin-hill O,
If I did offence, I'se make ye amends
Before I leave Peggy's mill O.
O the mill, mill O, and the kill, kill O,
And the coggin of the wheel O :
The sack and the sieve, a' that ye maun leave,
And round with a sodger reel O.
THE SODGEPv'S RETURN,
[By BuRXS.]
Aiv^The Mill, Mill 0.
When wild war's deadly blast was blawir,
xVnd gentle peace returning,
Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherle.s>5,
And mony a widow mourning :
I left the lines and tented field.
Where lang I'd been a lodger.
My humble Jinapsack a' my Avealth,
A poor and honest sodger.
\ leal, light heart was in my breast.
My hand unstain'd wi' plunder :
And for fair Scotia, hame again,
I cheery on did wander.
I thought upon the banks o' Coil,
I thought upon my Nancy,
I thought upon the witching smile
That caught my youthful fancy.,
VOL. II. U
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| Special collections of printed music > Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, tales, and songs > Volume 2 > (247) Page 225 - Sodger's return |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/87727434 |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.53a |
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| Description | With explanatory notes and observations [compiled] by John Gilchrist. Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1815. 2 volumes: v. 1. Ballads. Tales.--v. 2. Tales, continued. Songs. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.53-53a |
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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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