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MY LOVE HE WAS A HIGHLAND LAD.
What is right, and what is wrang, by the law, by the law ?
What is right, and what is wrang, by the law ?
What is right, and what is wrang ?
A short sword and a lang,
A weak arm and a Strang,
For to draw.
What makes heroic strife, fam'd afar, fam'd afar ?
What makes heroic strife, fam'd afar ?
What makes heroic strife ?
To whet th' assassin's knife.
Or hunt a parent's life
Wi' bloody war.
Then let your schemes alone in the state, in the state ;
Then let your schemes alone in the state :
Then let your schemes alone,
Adore the rising sun,
And leave a man undone
To his fate.
SONG XXXV.
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MY LOVE HE WAS A HIGHLAND LAD.
What is right, and what is wrang, by the law, by the law ?
What is right, and what is wrang, by the law ?
What is right, and what is wrang ?
A short sword and a lang,
A weak arm and a Strang,
For to draw.
What makes heroic strife, fam'd afar, fam'd afar ?
What makes heroic strife, fam'd afar ?
What makes heroic strife ?
To whet th' assassin's knife.
Or hunt a parent's life
Wi' bloody war.
Then let your schemes alone in the state, in the state ;
Then let your schemes alone in the state :
Then let your schemes alone,
Adore the rising sun,
And leave a man undone
To his fate.
SONG XXXV.
^^ 3Lo&e \)z liias a i^ig^laiiD 3LaD.
-^-^:
-ti-^—e
^
-*—•«•
My love he was a Highland lad, And come of no-ble
:5=^
-«-a-
m^
pe - di - gree. And nane could bear a tru - er heart, Or
:^=^
=^
!Zq^
^-
--^^^E^
1c;
^
■e— ^-ff— — jS-
i^d
wield a bet-ter brand than he. And 0, he was a
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| Shelfmark | Glen.194 |
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| Description | Being the songs, airs, and legends, of the adherents to the house of Stuart. Collected and illustrated by James Hogg. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood, 1819-1821. [First series] -- second series. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.194-194a |
| 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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