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* Ramsay wrote new words beginning, " Come, lets liae mair wine in," to this air, and published them in The Tea-Table MUcellany, 1724.
Of tlie verses given above. Burns wrote in iiis Hemarks on Scottish Song : " Tliis charming song is much older and, indeed, superior to Ramsay's
verses, ' Tlie Toast,' as he calls them." They appear, liowever. for the lirst time in Herd's Ancient aiid Modern Scottish Songs, 1769, The air is
included in the lirst edition of the Orpheus caledonius, i725, with Ramsay's verses, and marked " To the Tune of Saw ria ye my Maggie?"
Tliomson's version of the melody is very poor, and he has only sliglitly bettered it in the second edition of his work, in 1733. M'Gibbon's
version, published in his A Collection of Scots Tunes, Bk. ii., 1746, as " Saw ye my Peggy? ' is decidedly better ; so also is tile one inserted in
vol. iii. of Aird's Selection of Scotch, etc.. Airs, 178s. But we seem to be chiefly indebted to the Scots Museum, vol. i., 1787, fertile modern and
singable version of the tune "Saw ye nae my Peggy?" The air given above is almost identical with the first half of Johnson's setting.