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And O ! if a beggar wad co me,
With that fame beggar I'd gas.
And O ! and what'll come o' me ?
And O ! and what'll I do ?
That fie a braw laflie as I
Shou'd die for a wooer I trow ! *
SONG XXVII.
WHAT AILS THE LASSES AT ME.
To the tune, An the Kirk wad let me be f.
BY MR. ALEXANDER ROSS,
SCHOOL-MASTER AT L0CHLEE.
T AM a batchelor winfome,
A farmer by rank and degree,
An* few 1 fee gang out mair handfome,
To kirk or to market than me ;
* In the Orpheus Caledonius, where the firft, fourth,
and fifth of the above ftanzas are entirely omitted, the
laft verfe is as follows t
I had an auld wife to my minny,
And wow gin ihe kept me Jang,
And now the carlin's dead,
And I'll do what I can.
And I'll do what I can,
Wi' my twenty pound and my cow j
But wow it's an unco thing
That na body comes to wooe.
The tune is, likewife, very different.
\ See before, p. 241.
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And O ! if a beggar wad co me,
With that fame beggar I'd gas.
And O ! and what'll come o' me ?
And O ! and what'll I do ?
That fie a braw laflie as I
Shou'd die for a wooer I trow ! *
SONG XXVII.
WHAT AILS THE LASSES AT ME.
To the tune, An the Kirk wad let me be f.
BY MR. ALEXANDER ROSS,
SCHOOL-MASTER AT L0CHLEE.
T AM a batchelor winfome,
A farmer by rank and degree,
An* few 1 fee gang out mair handfome,
To kirk or to market than me ;
* In the Orpheus Caledonius, where the firft, fourth,
and fifth of the above ftanzas are entirely omitted, the
laft verfe is as follows t
I had an auld wife to my minny,
And wow gin ihe kept me Jang,
And now the carlin's dead,
And I'll do what I can.
And I'll do what I can,
Wi' my twenty pound and my cow j
But wow it's an unco thing
That na body comes to wooe.
The tune is, likewife, very different.
\ See before, p. 241.
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| Description | To the tune of An' the kirk wad let me be. |
| Shelfmark | Ing.62 |
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| Description | In two volumes. |
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| Shelfmark | Ing.62-63 |
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| Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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