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SONG LXV.
J^rae tl)e ^ricuD© aiiD Eanu 31 lobe.
Is copied from Johnson's Museum. A song of no great merit ;
but both words and air are affectingly simple.
SONG LXVI.
I^Jtc's to t\)Z j&ing, ^ir.
Though apparently a song of no merit, is exceedingly popular,
and always has been so from the time of its first appearance,
which, from the allusion to the king of Sweden, seems to have
been about the period of which we are treating. It must have
been owing to the celebrated old air of Hey tutti tatti, to which
this song is sung, that it became so popular. The best song that
ever was written, if set to a bad tune, must sink into oblivion.
SONG LXVII.
^^e ©ucfeoOj
Is a delightful little allegorical song, to an air highly appropriate.
I never saw it either in print or manuscript, but have heard it
sung frequently since ever I recollect. It must have been a great
favourite in the last age ; for about the time when I first began
to know one song from another, all the old people that could sing
at all sung The Cuckoo's a honiiy Bird. There are many more
verses, but 1 could not find them. I took these two verbatim
from a shrewd idiot, or one whom we denominated much better
in broad Scots, " a half-daft man," named William Dodds, who
gave it as a quotation in a mock discourse, which he was accus-
tomed to deliver to the boys and lasses in the. winter evenings.