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GUID NIGHT, AND JOY BE Wl' YOU A'.
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1600.
usually played at the breaking up of convivial parties. It was
in especial favour with Burns, who says in one of his letters :
'Ballad-making is now as completely my hobby-horse as ever
fortification was Uncle Toby's ; so I '11 e'en canter it away till
I come to the limit of my race (God grant that I may take the
right side of the winning-post !), and then, cheerfully looking
back on the honest folks with whom I have been happy, I shall
say or sing, " Sae merry as we a' hae been ! " and raising my
looks to the whole of the human race, the last words of the voice
of Coila shall be, " Good-night, and joy be wi' you a' ! '" To this
tune the bard wrote his well-known Farewell to the Brethren of
the Mason Lodge, Torbolton.
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1 It appears amongst Playford's Scotch Tunes, 1700.
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