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In my cabin's fair inn
I've a bed for a frien',
With a clean fire-side and a jorum.
Lai de lal, &c.
Was it not for my seeding
You would have poor feeding,
For indeed you would soon starve without me :
My mind is content
When I pay my own rent,
And I'm happy when friends are about me.
Draw near to my table,
Ye boys that are able,
Let us hear no more words of complaining,
For the ringing of glasses
All music surpasses,
I long to see bottles a draining,
Lal de ial, &c.
Let the mighty and great
Roll in splendor and state,
For 1 envy no mortal, I swear it ;
For I eat my own ham,
My own chicken, and lamb,
And I shear my own sheep and I wear it ;
I have all things in season,
Such as woodcock and pheasant,
And the lark is my morning alarmer,
So may each good fellow
That loves to be mellow,
Drink the plough and the good honest farmer,
Lal de lal, &c.
In my cabin's fair inn
I've a bed for a frien',
With a clean fire-side and a jorum.
Lai de lal, &c.
Was it not for my seeding
You would have poor feeding,
For indeed you would soon starve without me :
My mind is content
When I pay my own rent,
And I'm happy when friends are about me.
Draw near to my table,
Ye boys that are able,
Let us hear no more words of complaining,
For the ringing of glasses
All music surpasses,
I long to see bottles a draining,
Lal de ial, &c.
Let the mighty and great
Roll in splendor and state,
For 1 envy no mortal, I swear it ;
For I eat my own ham,
My own chicken, and lamb,
And I shear my own sheep and I wear it ;
I have all things in season,
Such as woodcock and pheasant,
And the lark is my morning alarmer,
So may each good fellow
That loves to be mellow,
Drink the plough and the good honest farmer,
Lal de lal, &c.
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/90480555 |
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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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