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THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
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ALLEORETTO
A PIACERE.
WE'RE A' NODDIN'.
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sair ha'e I fought,
Ear' and late did I toil,
My bairnies for to feed and dead 1 —
My comfort was their smile ;
When I thocht on Jamie far awa',
An' o' his love sae fain, 2
A bodin' thrill cam' through my heart
We'd maybe meet again.
Noo we're a' noddin', &c.
When he knocket at the door,
I thocht I kent the rap,
And little Katie cried aloud,
" My daddie he's cam' back !"
A stoun 3 gaed through my anxious breast,
As thochtfully I sat,
1 rase — I gazed — fell in his arms,
And bursted out and grat. 4
Noo we're a' noddin', &c.
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" We're a' noddin'." Air, " Nid noddin'." The words are taken from page 31 of that copious and excellent Col-
lection " The Book of Scottish Song," published by Messrs. Blackie and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, 1843.
Messrs. Blackie give three different versions of "Nid noddin':" — 1. The coarse verses published in Johnson's Museum,
and evidently founded on the original words to " John Anderson, my jo," preserved in Bishop Percy's old MS. of the
sixteenth century ; 2. Verses written by Allan Cunningham, for Mr. G. Thomson's Collection ; 3. The verses which
we have adopted as the best, and of which the author is unknown. About the year 1820 the air was very popular,
and was sung at public concerts by several of the fashionable singers of that time. The original of part of the modern
air appears in No. 523 of Johnson's Museum.