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THE BUSH ABOON TKAQUAIE.*
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* This air first appears in the Orpheus Caledonius, 1125, p. 3, adapted to Cra^vfard's verses. It is one of the seven tunes ascribed by the
editor of that work to " David Eizzio." In TVatt's Musical Miseellamj, vol. ii., p. 97, 1729, we find a slightly diflerent version of tlie melody
under the title of " The Bonnie Bush o' boon Traquhair." Crawftrd was drowned in 1732. These verses have been often wrongly ascribed to-
WiUiani Cra^vfard (of Auchlnames). The song beginning :
" The crow or daw thro' all the year
ISo fowler seeks to ruin,"
in Gay's opera Polly, 1729, is marked to be sung to the air, ' ' The Bush a-boon Traquair." Traqualr is a parish in Peeblesshire ; it is watered
by the stream Quair.