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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
printer, named John Mayne, a native of Glasgow, who died at
an advanced age in 1 836. The air, to which there was a song of
old date and little refinement, is inserted in Mrs Crocket's
manuscript Music-hook, 1709. 1 It was printed in the Orpheus
Caledonius, with the verses by James Thomson, beginning ' For
ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove.' Burns, having heard Mayne' s
song, and being fond of the air, composed a song for the melody,
in which he unconsciously borrowed one of Mayne's couplets,
being the conclusion of the first stanza. It may be greatly
doubted if the Ayrshire bard, on this occasion, excelled the
Glasgow one.
GAE TO THE KYE WI' ME, JOHNIE.
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Se
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gae to the kye \vi' me, John - ie,
ife£EE5E
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O gae to the kye wi' me ;
gae to the kye wi' me, John - ie,
1 In the Boxburghe Collection of Broadside Ballads in the British
Museum, there is one called The Bonny Scottish Lad and the Yielding
Lass, to an excellent new tune, much in request, called The Liggan
Waters. One of the verses may be given, as a specimen :
Bonny lass, I love thee well,
Bonny lad, I love thee better ;
Wilt thou pull off thy hose and shoon,
And wend with me to Liggan Water ?
SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
printer, named John Mayne, a native of Glasgow, who died at
an advanced age in 1 836. The air, to which there was a song of
old date and little refinement, is inserted in Mrs Crocket's
manuscript Music-hook, 1709. 1 It was printed in the Orpheus
Caledonius, with the verses by James Thomson, beginning ' For
ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove.' Burns, having heard Mayne' s
song, and being fond of the air, composed a song for the melody,
in which he unconsciously borrowed one of Mayne's couplets,
being the conclusion of the first stanza. It may be greatly
doubted if the Ayrshire bard, on this occasion, excelled the
Glasgow one.
GAE TO THE KYE WI' ME, JOHNIE.
S
Se
• d
^
gae to the kye \vi' me, John - ie,
ife£EE5E
I
O gae to the kye wi' me ;
gae to the kye wi' me, John - ie,
1 In the Boxburghe Collection of Broadside Ballads in the British
Museum, there is one called The Bonny Scottish Lad and the Yielding
Lass, to an excellent new tune, much in request, called The Liggan
Waters. One of the verses may be given, as a specimen :
Bonny lass, I love thee well,
Bonny lad, I love thee better ;
Wilt thou pull off thy hose and shoon,
And wend with me to Liggan Water ?
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| Description | With the tunes. Edited by Robert Chambers. Edinburgh ; London : W. & R. Chambers, 1890. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.118 |
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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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