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THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
THE BLUDE EED KOSE AT YULE MAY BLAW.
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For a' his meal and a' his maut,
For a' his fresh beef and his saut,
For a' his gowd and white monie,
An auld man shall never daunton me.
To daunton me, &c.
His gear 1 may buy him kye and yowes,
His gear may buy him glens and knowes ;
But me he shall not buy nor fee,
For an auld man shall never daunton me.
To daunton me, &c.
He hirples 5 twa-fauld as he dow,
Wi' his teethless gab 8 and his auld beld pow,
And the rain rains down frae his red blear'd e'e
That auld man shall never daunton me.
To daunton me, &c.*
1 Riches.
2 To walk lamely.
3 Mouth.
* This last stanza may as well be omitted in singing.
" To daunton me." This air is to be found in Book I. of Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, a work published
in London not earlier probably than 1755, although 1740 is often incorrectly given as the date of its publication.
The words, with the exception of a part of the chorus, were written by Burns, in 1787, for Johnson's Museum. From
the illustrations to that work we quote the following Jacobite song, which is there said to have appeared " in a very
rare and curious little book, entitled, ' A Collection of Loyal Songs, Poems, &c.,' printed in the year 1750, pp. 70 and
71." As each stanza contains only six lines, it will be necessary, in singing it, to begin the air at this mark (*), so
as to have four instead of eight bars in the first strain.
To daunton me, to daunton me,
Do you ken the things that would daunton me ?
Eighty- eight and eighty-nine,
And a' the dreary years since syne,
With Cess, and Press, and Presbytry —
Gude faith, these had liken to ha'e daunton'd me.
But to wanton me, but to wanton me,
Do you ken the things that would wanton me ?
To see good corn upon the rigs,
And banishment to a' the Whigs,
And right restored where right should be ;
! these are the things that would wanton me.
But to wanton me, but to wanton me ;
And ken ye what maist would wanton me ?
To see King James at Edinbrough cross,
With fifty thousand foot and horse,
And the usurper forced to flee —
this is what maist would wanton me !