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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
Say, was it foul or was it fair,
To come a hunder miles and mair,
For to ding out my daddy's heir, 1
And dash him wi' the whiggin' o't %
Ramsay and Burns were also impelled, "by the charm of the
melody, to compose sentimental songs to it ; but regarding these
there is no occasion at present to speak.
An earlier and simpler, but much inferior set of the air, is given
by Mr Stenhouse from ' Mrs Crockat's Book, written in 1 709.'
In Johnson's Museum, the song is presented in connection with
an air entirely different, which is commonly recognised under
the name of JDeil Stick the Minister, being the proper melody of a
song so called, too primitive in its style of ideas for modern
society. The old hard laird of Dumbiedykes, it will be recol-
lected (Heart of Midlothian, chap, viii.), 'soughed awa in an
attempt to sing Deil Stick the Minister' As this classic circum-
stance may have given the reader an interest in the subject,
the melody is here repeated, with the first verses of TJiis is no
my ain House, set to it.
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big - gin' o't, For bow - kail thrave at my door-cheek, And
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thris-tles on the rig - gin' o't.
Variation-
To ding my daddie frae his chair.