The Scotish minstrel : a selection from the vocal melodies of Scotland, ancient & modern, arr. for the piano forte / [comp. by] Robert Archibald Smith.

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Musical score
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English
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Edinburgh : R. Purdie, [1820-1824]
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1 score (6 v. in )

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    For voice and piano.
    Contents
    • Vol. 1 A Bonnie boat came o’er the sea – Again rejoicing nature sees ; A Highland lad my love was born / Burns – Allan needna speak to me – As on a rock, past all relief / Ramsay – As o’er the Hieland hills I lied / Cameron – At morning sun out o’er the lea / Anderson – Awa, Whigs, awa – Baloo loo, lammy, now baloo, my dear – Betty early gone a maying / Ramsay – Blink over the burn, my sweet Betty / Mitchell – Braw, braw lads on Yarrow braes / Burns – Busk ye, busk ye, my bonnie bride / Ramsay – By yon roaring lin – Cauld blaws the wind frae north to south / Hamilton – Farewell, my dame, and my bairnies twa – Farewell to Lochaber / Ramsay – Fare thee well, thou first and fairest (1st Set) ; Fare thee well, thou first and fairest (2nd Set) / Burns – For lack of gold she’s left me ; Frae the friends and land I love / Dr. Webster – Gat ye me, O gat ye me ; Go bring to me a pint o’wine / Burns – Go bring to me a pint o’ale / Crawford – John Anderson, my jo, John / Burns – Joy of my earliest day – Is there for honest poverty / Burns – It fell about the Martinmas time – I’ve heard them lilting at the ewes milking / Miss Home – I’ve seen the smiling of fortune beguiling / Cockburn – I wish I kend my Maggie’s mind – Land of my fathers / Leyden – Lochiel! Lochiel! beware of the day / T. Campbell – Loud blaw the frosty breezes – My heart is sair, I darena tell ; My lady’s gown there’s gares upon’t / Burns – My love is in Germany – My wife’s a winsome wee thing / Burns – Now closed for aye thy coal-black een / Anderson – O Bothwell bank, thou bloomest fair / Pinkerton – O hark, ye lads, and I will tell ye – Oh! Charlie is my darling – Oh! hame, hame, hame wad I be – Oh! what had I ado for to marry – O Geordie reigns in Jamie’s steed – O lay thy loof in mine, lass ; O leeze me in my spinning-wheel / Burns – O Logie o’Buchan, O Logie the laird / Lindsay – O Mary! I had known thee long / Wilson – O Mary, sweetest maid, farewell / Boswell – O meikle thinks my luve o’ my beauty / Burns – O merry may the maid be / Sir J. Clerk – O poortith cauld and restless love ; O raging fortune’s with’ring blast / Burns – O send Lewie Gordon hame / Geddes – O stately stood the baron’s ha’ – O this is no my ain lassie / Burns – O! Thou hast seen the lily fair / John Sim – O some will tune their mournfu’ strains – O, weel’s me on my ain man – O wert thou in the cauld blast / Burns – O wha will ride, and wha will rin – O Willie was a wanton wag / Walkinshaw – Prince Charlie he’s cum owre frae France – Quhair will I lay my hede – Rising o’er the heaving billow – Rob Roy frae the Highlands cam – Roy’s wife of Aldivalloch / Mrs. Grant – Sair, sair was my heart / Lockhart – Sensibility, how charming ; She’s fair and cause that causes my smart / Burns – Shrilly shriek’d the raging wind – Son of the mighty and the free – Sweet Annie frae the sea-beach came / Dr. Hoadley – Sweet fa’s the eve on Craige-burn wood / Burns – The carle he cam o’er the craft – The Campbells are comin’ – The Catrine woods were yellow seen / Burns – The last of our steers on our board / Scott – The lawland lads think they are fine / Ramsay – The luve that I hae chosen – The lovely moon had climb’d – The moon had climb’d the highest hill / Lowe – The tailor fell through the bed – There’s high and low, there’s rich and poor; There grows a bonnie brier bush / Burns – There lived a man in our town – There was a lass, they ca’d her Meg / Burns – The chevalier being void of fear – Thy braes were bonnie, Yarrow stream / Logan – Up amang yon cliffy rocks / Dudgeon – Will ye go, lassie, go ; Will ye go to Inverness ; Will you go to Sheriffmuir / Tannahill – Whar hae ye been a’ day / Macniell – What ails this heart o’ mine / Miss Blamire – When I think on this world’s pelf – When royal power was hunted down – With waefu’ heart and sorrowing e’e / Tannahill – Wilt thou go, my bonnie lassie / Hogg – Ye banks and braes, and streams around ; Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon / Burns – Ye’ll mount, gudeman – You meaner beauties of the night.
    • Vol. 2 A Better mason than Lammikin – About zule quhen the wind blew cule – A cock laird, fu’ cadgie / Thomson – Ah! Chloris, could I now but sit / D. Forbes – All lovely on the sultry beach / Wallace – A lass that was laden wi’ care / Thomson – An house there stands on Leader-side – And ye sal walk in silk attire – A rosebud by my early walk / Burns – Argyle is my name / John, Duke of Argyle – As I stood by yon roofless tow’r / Burns – Balow, my boy, lie still and sleep / Bothwell – Behind yon hills where Lugar flows / Burns – Beneath a green shade / Blacklock – Bonny lassie, will ye go ; But lately seen, in gladsome green – Burns – Carl, an the king come – Culloden muir, Culloden field / Anderson – Dance to you daddie – Duke Hamilton was as fine a lord – Fareweel, fareweel, my gallant hearts – Farewell, thou stream that winding flows / Burns – Gilderoy was a bonnie boy – Gin living worth could win my heart – Hail to the chief / Scott – He’s a terrible man, John Tod – He’s lifeless among the rude billows – Here’s a health to those far away – Here’s a health to them that’s awa – Her daddy forbad, her minnie forbad – Hersell be Highland shentleman – Hey Donald, how Donald – Hey, the dusty miller – How blithe was I each morn to see / Crawford – I hae nae kith, I hae nae kin – I hae laid a herring in sa’t – I’ve heard the muircock’s early craw – It fell on a day, a bonny summer day – It was in and about the Martinmas time – I will awa wi’ my love / Ramsay – Keen blaws the wind / Tannahill – Let us haste to Kelvin grove / John Sim – Life, what art thou / Fergusson – Like yonder lovely turtle dove – Lord Ronald came to his lady’s bower – Loud roar’d the tempest / J.B. – Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion / Burns – Mount and go – My Patie is a lover gay / J.B. – O check, my love, the falling tear / John Sim – Of all the Scotish northern chiefs – O gae to the kye wi’ me, Johnny – Oh! dinna ask me gin I lo’e ye / Dunlop – Oh! hey, hey, the east nuik o’ Fife – Oh! ‘tis a heart-stirring sight to view / Hogg – Oh! I am come to the low countrie / Burns – O, lassie, wilt thou go to the Lomond / Tannahill – O, lassie, I maun lo’e thee ; O saw ye bonnie Leslie / Burns – O! see that form that faintly gleams / Miss Keith – O silent and sad the minstrel sat – O speed, Lord Nithsdale, speed ye fast – O stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay ; O, Tibbie, I hae seen the day / Burns – O wake thee, O wake thee / Sangster – O waly, waly, up yon bank – O where are you going, sweet Robin – Peggy, now the king’s come / Ramsay – Sir John Cope trode the north right far – Should auld acquaintance be forgot / Burns – Stay, my charmer, can you leave me / Burns – Tarry woo’, O tarry woo’ / Ramsay – The bride came out of the byre – The gloomy night is gath’ring fast / Burns – The lazy mist / Blacklock – The pearl of the fountain / Monro – The tither morn, when I forlorn / Dr Riddell – There came a young man – There was a battle in the north – There’s auld Rob Morris / Burns – Thickest night surrounds my dwelling / Burns – Thou cauld gloomy Feberwar / Tannahill – Thou hast left me ever, Jamie / Burns – Tho’ simmer smiles on bank and brae – To thee, loved Dee, thy gladsome vales – True-hearted was he / Burns – ‘Twas in that season of the year / Hewitt – Up and warn a’, Willie – Wee Willie Gray, and his leather wallet / Burns – With broken words and downcast eyes / Ramsay – Will ye gang to the Hielands – Whare hae you been sae braw, lad / Burns – Whare live ye, my bonnie lass / Burns – What’s a’ the steer, kimmer / Burns – What saftening thoughts resistless start / Gall – What will I do gin my hoggie die / Burns – When France had some assitance lent – When I left thee, bonnie Scotland – When sets the sun o’er Lomond’s height – When trees did bud and fields were Green / Crawford – When wild war’s deadly blast was blawn / Burns – Where floated crane and clam’rous gull / Hogg – White was the rose in his gay bonnet.
    • Vol. 3 And are ye sure the news is true? / Jean Adam – As I was a-walking by yon river side – Auld Robin, the laird o’ muckle land – Ay wakin’, oh! Wakin’ ay and wearie – A wee bird came to our ha’ door / Glen – Bessy’s beauties shine sae bright / Ramsay – Blithe was the time / Tannahill – Blithe, blithe, and merry was she / Burns – Bonnie wee thing, canny wee thing / Burns – Brave Lewie Roy – By Logan streams, that rin sae deep / Mayne – Can aught be constant as the sun / Burns – Charlie cam to our lord’s castle – Come boat me o’er, come row me o’er – Comin’ through the craigs o’ Kyle / Glover – Dumbarton’s drums beat bonny, O – Edina! aft thy wa’s hae rung / Gall – Farewell, ye dungeons dark and strong / Burns – Fortune, frowning most severe / Allan – Fy, buckle your belt an’ braid-sword on – Gi’e me a lass wi’ a lump o’ land / Ramsay – Gill Morice was an earl’s son – Haud awa, bide awa – Happy’s the luve that meets return – Here awa, there awa – Here’s to the king, sir – He’s o’er the hills that I lo’e weel – Hey how, Johnny lad – How pleasant the banks / Burns – How sweet this lone vale / J. Erskine – I dreamed I lay / Burns – I lo’e nae a laddie but ane – I’m wearin’ awa, John – In simmer when the hay was mawn / Burns – In the garb of old Gaul / Erskine – In the hall I lay, I lay at night / Ossian – It was a’ for our rightfu’ king – Keen blaws the wind o’er Donocht-head / Pickering – Maid of my heart, a long farewell – Musing on the roaring ocean / Burns – My sheep I’ve forsaken / Elliot – Nae mair we’ll meet again, my love / Sim – Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note / Hayley – Now nature hangs her mantle green / Burns – O bonnie was yon rosy brier – Of a’ the airts the win’ can blaw / Burns – O false Sir John a wooing came – O fare ye weel, my auld wife – O gin my love were yon red rose – Oh Billy, Billy, bonny Billy – Oh, was not I a weary wight – O heard ye yon pibroch sound / T. Campbell – O, how can you gang, lassie / Tannahill – O, I hae seen great anes / Hamilton – O Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie / Burns – O, lady, twine no wreath for me / Scott – O mirk, mirk is the midnight hour / Burns – O, my love is like a red, red rose / Burns – On Ettrick banks ae simmer night – O rattlin’, roarin’ Willie – O, sweet sir, for your courtesie – O, this is no my ain house – O wash that drap frae aff our cheek – O, wat ye wha’s in yon town / Burns – O whare hae ye been, Lord Ronald – Rise up, rise up, Lord Douglas – Romantic Esk! what sweets combine / Gall – See, spring her graces wild disclose – Shall monarchy be quite forgot – Simmer comes, and in her train / Sim – Since all thy vows, false maid / Cromleck – The auld Stuarts back again – The bonniest lass in a’ the world – The day returns my bosom burns / Burns – The do’e flew east, the do’e flew west / Hogg – The gypsies came to our lord’s yett – The laird o’ Cockpen – The lass of Patie’s mill / Ramsay – The last time I came o’er the muir / Ramsay – The moon’s o’er the mountain – The soldier may toil / T. Campbell – The tears I shed must ever fall / Cranston – The weary pund, the weary pund / Burns – The widow can bake – The winter it is past – There’s cauld kail in Aberdeen – There’s nought that ever met the eye / Anderson – There was ance a May / Lady Home – Thou art gane awa, thou art gane awa / Lady Home – Thou ling’ring star! With less’ning ray / Burns – Tune your fiddles, tune them sweetly / Skinner – ‘Twas past one o’clock – ‘Twas wearing gay and late at e’en / Gall – Ullin, Carril, and Ryno / Ossian – Up wi’ the carls o’Dysart – What beauties does Flora disclose / Crawford – When braving angry winter’s storms / Burns – When fragrant winds at eve blew saft – When I hae a saxpence under my thumb – When merry hearts were gay / Macniell – When the sheep are in the fauld – Wilt thou be my dearie / Burns – Will ye go to the ewe-bughts, Marion – Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary / Burns – Young Jamie lo’ed me weel / Lindsay – Ye gallants bright, I redd you right / Burns.
    • Vol. 6 Alack, my sad heart / David Tough – Although his back be at the wa’ – Amang the birks sae blithe and gay / T. M. Cunningham – And must I leave my native isle / James Hogg – An O for ane and twenty, Tam! / Burns – A stately ship is on the sea – At Willie’s wedding on the green / Sir A. Boswell – Away, away, from the deadly shore / Robert Allan – Away, ye gay landscapes / Lord Byron – Baloo, baloo, my wee wee thing / Richard Gall – Bess is young, and Bess is fair – Bonnie Clouden as ye wander / T. M. Cunningham – Can ye lo’e, my dear lassie / H. Ainslie – Could aught of song declare my pains / Burns – Culloden, on thy swarth brow / John Grieve – Dark lours the night / Alexander Wilson – Declare, ye banks of Helicon – Eh, quo’ the tod, ‘tis a braw light night – Fare thee well, my native cot / James Hogg – Farewell, thou fair day / Burns – Flow gently, sweet Afton – Fly we to some desert isle / Tannahill – Go to Berwick, Johnnie / John Hamilton – Hark! the horn! / From the Gaelic – Here awa, there awa / Burns – How lang and dreary is the night Burns – I’ll drink a health to Charlie – I’ll lay me on the wintry lea / Tannahill – I’ll o’er the muir to Maggy, O / John Anderson – In far-distant climes – In Scotland there lived a humble beggar – I stood on the spot / Dr Wm. Craig – It is na, Jean, thy bonnie face / Burns – It’s dowie in the hint o’ hairst – H. Ainslie – It’s wae wi’ me when the sun gaes down – I’ve see the lily of the wold / John Grieve – Lord Thomas and fair Annet – Lythe and listen, feeris al – My bark is now upon the wave / Robert Allan – My heart is breaking, dear tittie! / Burns – My love, come let us wander / Daniel Weir – My mither’s aye glowrin’ o’er me / Allan Ramsay – My lady sits within her bower / Mrs Moncrieff – My Peggy is a young thing / Allan Ramsay – Nae gentle dames, though e’er sae fair / Burns – ‘Neath the wave thy lover sleeps / Daniel Weir – Now winter wi’ his cloudy brow / Tannahill – Now, wat ye wha I met yestreen / Allan Ramsay – October winds, with biting breath / James Scadlock – O gi’e my love brose, brose – O ha’e you seen our lasses yet / Dr Wm. Craig – Oh hon a ri! there’s something / James Hogg – Oh, say na sae, Mary Cunningham – O leeze me on my spinning-wheel ; O mind ye nae, mind ye nae / Burns – On a bank of flowers, ae simmer’s day – On thee, Eliza, dwell my thoughts / Robert Alan – O saw ye my father – O saw ye Willie frae the west / Wm. Chalmers – O strike your harp, my Mary / James Hogg – O! What can make my Annie sigh / John Anderson – O wilt thou go wi’ me? / Burns – O were I able to rehearse / Rev. J. Skinner – Put off, put off, and row with speed / Robert Allan – Rest, lovely babe, on mother’s knee / John Sim – Saw ye ne’er a lanely lassie – Subdued by misfortune – Sure my Jean is beauty’s blossom / Robert Gall – Sweet are the fair maids – That life’s a faught there is nae doubt / Robert Allan – The corbie wi’ his roupy throat – The last of the Stuarts has sunk / Daniel Weir – The mautman comes on Mononday / John Anderson – The news frae Moidart cam yestreen – The nicht is mirk – The noble Maxwells and their powers – The queen o’ the Lothians – There was a May won’d in yon glen – There was an auld wife / A. Brodie – The Rover o’ Loch-ryan / H. Ainslie – The smiling spring comes in rejoicing / Burns – The wind is fair, the day is fine / Morehead – The year is wearin’ to the wane / James Hogg – Thy father, my bairnie, will ne’er come – ‘Tis hinna ye heard, man / Tannahill – ‘Tis nae very lang sinsyne – ‘Twas on a cauld cauld wintry morn – Was ever old warrior of suff’ring so weary / James Hogg – We a’ were blithe and merry short syne – Willie’s rare and Willie’s fiar – Wilt thou gang wi’ me / George Bruce – Wha’s this, wi’ voice o’ music sweet / Richard Gall – When Charlie to the Highlands came / Robert Allan – When first my braw Johnnie, lad – When gloamin’ spreads her mantle grey / Robert Allan – When I upon thy bosom lean / J. Lapraik – When silent time wi’ lightly foot / Miss Blamire – Where are the joys / Burns – Ye briery bields where roses blaw / T. M. Cunningham – Ye lost companions of distress, adieu / Falconer – Ye’ll marvel when I tell you – Ye’re welcome, young prince.
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