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Voice.
Piano.
Co^c sent a letter frae Dunbar.
JOHNNIE COPE.*
Con spirito.
Air : " Py to the hills in the morning."
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2. drew his sword the scab - hard from : Come, fol - low me, my mer - ry men. And
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* Two versions of this clever ball.id are given by .loseph Ritson in his Scotish So^ffs, p. 82, etc. They differ consider.ably from the version
in Johnson's 5cors Musical Museuyn, ]^o. 234. Steuliouse declares them to be " merely variations of the original satirical son;^ which was
written by 3Ir. Skirven, author of the song called * Tranent Muir ' " (^Museum Illustrations, p. 22u). For full historical information regarding
Sir John Cope, see Hogg's Jacobite Relics, 1821, Ser. II., p. 308. A version of the tune appears in Oswald's Caledonian Foeket Companion,
Bk. ix, under the title ot " Johny Cope."