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Vm as happy with my wallet, my bottle, and my
caller,
As when I us'd in scarlet to follow a drum.
* Lai de daudle, 8cc.
What tho' with hoary locks, I must stand the win-?
ter shocks,
Beneath the woods and rocks oftentimes for a home 5
When the 'tother bag I sell, and the 'tother bottle
tell,
I could meet a troop of hell at the sound of the drum.
Lai de daudle, Sec.
RECITATIVO.
He ended, an' the kebars sheuk,
Aboon the chorus roar j
While frighted rattons backward leuky
An' seek the benmost bore :
A fairy fiddler frae the neuk,
He skirl'd out encore 1
But up arose the martial chuck,
An' laid the loud uproar.
AIJl.
TUNE...Soldier Laddie,
I once was a maid, tho' I cannot tell when,
A,nd still my delight is in proper young men ;
Some one of a troop of dragoons was my -dadcuej
No wonder I'm fond of a soger laddie.
Sing, Lai de lal, Sic.
The first of my loves was a swaggering blade,
•J? rattle the thundering drum was his trade $
Vm as happy with my wallet, my bottle, and my
caller,
As when I us'd in scarlet to follow a drum.
* Lai de daudle, 8cc.
What tho' with hoary locks, I must stand the win-?
ter shocks,
Beneath the woods and rocks oftentimes for a home 5
When the 'tother bag I sell, and the 'tother bottle
tell,
I could meet a troop of hell at the sound of the drum.
Lai de daudle, Sec.
RECITATIVO.
He ended, an' the kebars sheuk,
Aboon the chorus roar j
While frighted rattons backward leuky
An' seek the benmost bore :
A fairy fiddler frae the neuk,
He skirl'd out encore 1
But up arose the martial chuck,
An' laid the loud uproar.
AIJl.
TUNE...Soldier Laddie,
I once was a maid, tho' I cannot tell when,
A,nd still my delight is in proper young men ;
Some one of a troop of dragoons was my -dadcuej
No wonder I'm fond of a soger laddie.
Sing, Lai de lal, Sic.
The first of my loves was a swaggering blade,
•J? rattle the thundering drum was his trade $
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| Shelfmark | Glen.5(2) |
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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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