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at all ; I'll tell you how it were : the squire says
to I, and about seventeen more neighbours, I'll
bet ev'ry one of you fifty guineas that I be'nt re-
turned for your borough ; so we said done ; so
when we come to consider what a foolish job we
had made on't, icod we were obligated to bring
un in, for fear of losing our money ; ha, ha, ha 3
don'tee zee, don'tee zee, ha, ha, ha.
Thus the laugh goes round,
'Mongst the village crowd,
Who get shav'd fit for church on Sunday ^
Of their transgressions sore,
To pay off the week's score,
The better to sin on a Monday.
Kellyburnbraes.
There lived a carl in Kellyburnbraes,
Hey and the rue grows bonny wi' thyme j
And he had a wife was the plague o' his days,
And the thyme it is wither'd, and rue is in prime s
Ae day as the carl gaed up the lang glen,
Hey, &c.
He met wi' the d-v-1, says, how do ye fen ?
And, &c.
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at all ; I'll tell you how it were : the squire says
to I, and about seventeen more neighbours, I'll
bet ev'ry one of you fifty guineas that I be'nt re-
turned for your borough ; so we said done ; so
when we come to consider what a foolish job we
had made on't, icod we were obligated to bring
un in, for fear of losing our money ; ha, ha, ha 3
don'tee zee, don'tee zee, ha, ha, ha.
Thus the laugh goes round,
'Mongst the village crowd,
Who get shav'd fit for church on Sunday ^
Of their transgressions sore,
To pay off the week's score,
The better to sin on a Monday.
Kellyburnbraes.
There lived a carl in Kellyburnbraes,
Hey and the rue grows bonny wi' thyme j
And he had a wife was the plague o' his days,
And the thyme it is wither'd, and rue is in prime s
Ae day as the carl gaed up the lang glen,
Hey, &c.
He met wi' the d-v-1, says, how do ye fen ?
And, &c.
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/90477915 |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.5(1) |
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| Description | Containing Oliver's new selection of comic songs; or, Momus's budget, etc. and Oliver's choice selection of comic songs and The Shamrock, or, The Hibernian songster and The sky-lark, being a choice selection of the most favourite songs etc. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.5(1-4) |
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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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