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Air : " The wee, wee man."
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* John Findlay, in Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, vol. ii., 1803, considers this air to be possibly one of the most ancient of our
legendary tunes. Burns' verses, " O bonnie was yon rosy brier," were written in the summer of 1795, and first published ivitli the above air
In George Thomson's Collection, vol. iii. The singular ballad, linown as "The wee, wee man," was preserved by D.avid Herd in his first
volume oi Antient and Modern Scottish Sonffs, issued in 1J69. Its first appearance in conjunction with the air, is in Johnson's Scots' Musical
Museum, vol. iv., No. 310.