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2. What though on hame-ly fare we dine,Wear
3. Ye see yon bir - kie, ca'd a lord.Wha
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man of in - de - pen - dent mind, He looks an' laughs at a' that,
pith o' sense, the pride o' worth Are high - er ranks than a' that,
man to man, the warld o'er. Shall bro - thers be for a' that.
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winter winds," to the same air. It appears in vol, iii. of the Scots' Musical Museum. In Gow's ColWtimi of Beds. pt. i., 1 7h4, the tune occurs
as " Sir John Whitefoord's Strathspey, by Nath. Gow" ; and again, in the Repository, pt. iii., as "There's nae luck about the house; or, for a'
that and a' that." In pt. ii. of the same Collection the Editor gives a somewhat different veraon of the melody as " Lady Mackintosh's Reel."
In Aird's Selection of Scotch, etc.. Airs, vol. i., issued in 1782, and therefore twelve years prior to Burns' composition, there is a tune which has
but little in common with the one above, entitled " Far a' that and a' that."