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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE.
In Herd's Collection is a long rambling dialogue song, of not
much merit, but sustained by a melody of uncommon beauty,
and, for a Scotch sentimental air, animation. After the song
had been in a great measure laid aside, the air retained popu-
larity, and of late years it has been insured a sort of immortality
by being adapted for the melody of Burns's charming song, A
Rose-bud by my early walk. The present editor, unwilling to see
the original rustic song entirely perish, has here condensed
and purified it, so as to fit it for modern society.
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o'er the lee, Will ye comehame a - gain e'en, jo? What
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