Details

Subject(s)

• Songs, Scots [Browse]
• Folk songs, Scots [Browse]
• Folk music—Scotland [Browse]

Related name

• Johnson, James, approximately 1750-1811 [Browse]
• Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 [Browse]
• Low, Donald A. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Folk songs [Browse]
• Songs [Browse]
• Folk music [Browse]

Notes

• Principally songs with continuo.
• Principally Scots words.
• Words of many of the songs by Burns.
• Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1853.

Bibliographic references

Bibliography: p. 690-692.

Contents

Volume I.; Volume 1.; The Highland queen --; An thou were my ain thing --; Peggy, I must love thee --; Bess the Gawkie --; Oh open the door, Lord Gregory --; The banks of the Tweed --; The beds of sweet roses --; Roslin Castle --; Saw ye Johnnie cummin, quo' she --; Woo'd and married and a' --; Saw ye nae my Peggy --; The bonny Scot-man --; The flowers of Edinburgh --; Jamie Gay --; My dear Jockey --; Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae --; The lass of Livingston --; The last time I came o'er the moor --; The happy marriage --; The lass of Peaty's mill --; The Highland laddie --; Highland laddie, new sett --; The Turnimspike --; Blythe Jockey --; Auld lang syne --; Leander on the bay --; The gentle swain --; He stole my tender heart away --; Blythe Jocky young and gay --; Bonny Bessy --; Twine weel the plaiden --; Fairest of the fair --; The blathrie o't --; Lucky Nancy --; May eve, or, Kate of Aberdeen --; Tweed side --; Mary's dream --; New set of Mary's dream --; Water parted from the sea --; The maid that tends the goats --; I wish my love were in a mire --; Logan water --; Allan water --; There's nae luck about the house --; Tarry woo --; The maid in Bedlam --; The collier's bonny lassie --; Within a mile of Edinburgh --; My ain kind, deary-O --; Nancy's to the green-wood gane --; Blink o'er the burn, sweet Bettie --; Jenny Nettles --; When absent from the nymph --; Bonny Jean --; O'er the moor to Maggy --; Pinky-house --; Here awa', there awa' --; The blithsome bridal --; Sae Merry as we tw'a hae been --; Bonny Christy --; Jocky said to Jeany --; O'er the hills, and far away --; The flowers of the forest --; Busk ye, busk ye --; There's my thumb, I'll ne'er beguile thee --; Gilderoy --; John Hay's bonny lassie --; The bonny Brucket lassie --; The broom of Cowdenknows --; Oscar's ghost --; Her absence will not alter me --; The birks of Invermay --; Mary Scot --; Down the burn, Davie --; The banks of Forth --; O saw ye my father --; Green grows the rashes --; Loch Eroch side --; The bonny grey-ey'd morn --; The bush aboon Traquair --; Etrick banks --; My deary, if thou die --; She rose, and let me in --; Sweet Anny frae the sea-beach came --; Go to the ew-bughts, Marion --; Lewis Gordon --; The wawking of the fauld --; My Nanny-O --; Oh ono chrio --; Low down in the broom --; I'll never leave thee --; Braes of Ballenden --; Corn riggs --; My apron, dearie --; Lochaber --; The mucking of Geordie's byar --; Bide ye yet --; The joyful widower --; Bonie Dundee --; Johnny and Mary --; Volume I (continued).; Volume 2.; When Guilford good our pilot stood --; Tranent muir --; To the weaver's gin ye go --; Strephon and Lydia --; On a rock by seas surrounded --; Whistle, an' I'll come to you, my lad --; I'm o'er young to marry yet --; Hamilla --; Love is the cause of my mourning --; Bonnie May --; My Jo Janet --; He who presum'd to guide the sun --; The birks of Aberfeldy --; McPherson's farewell --; The lowlands of Holland --; The maid of Selma --; The Highland lassie O --; The Northern lass --; Song of Selma --; Fife and a' the lands about it --; Were na my heart light I wad die --; The yellow-hair'd laddie --; The miller --; Wap at the widow, my laddie --; Braw, braw lads of Galla-water --; The young man's dream --; O mither dear --; Bessy Bell, and Mary Gay --; Stay, my charmer, can you leave me --; Lady Bothwell's lament --; Woes my heart that we shou'd sunder --; Strathallan's lament --; What will I do gin my hoggie die --; The carle he came o'er the craft --; Gae to the ky wi' me, Johnny --; Why hangs that cloud --; Willy was a wanton wag --; Jumpin John --; Hap me wi' thy petticoat --; Up in the morning early --; The tears of Scotland --; Where winding Forth adorns the vale --; The young Highland rover --; Dusty Miller --; The wedding-day --; I dream'd I lay, &c. --; I, who am sore oppress'd with love --; A cock laird, fu' cadgie --; Duncan Davison --; Love will find out the way --; Ah! the poor shepherd's mournful fate --; My love has forsaken me --; My lo'v Celestia --; Thro the wood, laddie --; Where Helen lies --; Theniel Menzies bonie Mary --; The banks of the Devon --; Waly, waly --; The shepherd Adonis --; Duncan Gray --; Dumbarton's drums --; Cauld kail in Aberdeen --; For lake of gold --; Katharine Ogie --; The ploughman --; Tune, Here's a health to my true love, &c. --; Hey, Jenny, come down to Jock --; O'er Bogie --; Lass wi' a lump of land --; Hey tutti taiti --; The young laird and Edinburgh Katy --; Katy's answer --; Raving winds around her blowing --; Ye gods, was Strephon's picture blest --; How long and dreary is the night --; Since robb'd of all that charmd my views --; The bonny Earl of Murray --; Young Damon --; Musing on the roaring ocean --; Blythe was she --; Johny Faa, or, The Gypsy laddie --; To Dannton me --; Polwart on the green --; Absence --; I had a horse, and I had nae mair --; Talk not of love, it gives me pain --; O'er the water to Charlie --; Up and warn a' Willie --; A rose bud by my early walk --; To a blackbird --; Hooly and fairly --; Auld Rob Morris --; And I'll kiss thee yet, yet --; Rattlin, roarin Willie --; Where braving anry winter's storms --; Tibbie, I hae seen the day --; Nancy's ghost --; Clarinda --; Cromlet's lilt --; The winter it is past.; Volume I (continued).; Volume 3.; Tune your fiddles, &c. --; Gladsmuir --; Gill Morice --; I love my love in secret --; When I upon thy bosom lean --; Colonel Gardener --; Tibbie Dunbar --; Jenny, was fair and unkind --; My Harry was a gallant gay --; The Highland character --; Leader haughs and yarrow --; The taylor fell thro' the bed, &c. --; Ay waukin, O --; The breast knots --; Beware o' bonie Ann --; This is no mine ain house --; My wife's a wanton, wee thing --; Laddie lie near me --; The brisk young lad --; The gardener wi' his paidle --; Bonny Barbara Allan --; Young Philander --; On a bank of flowers --; The day returns, my bosom burns --; My love she's but a lassie yet --; The Gaberlunzie-man --; Cauld frosty morning --; The black eagle --; Jamie come try me --; Magie's tocher --; My bony Mary --; The lazy mist --; The captain's lady --; Johnie Cope --; I love my Jean --; Tune, O dear mother, what shall I do --; The linkin laddie --; Alloa house --; Tun, Carle, an' the king come --; The Siller crown --; St. Kilda song --; The mill mill O --; The waefu heart --; lass gin ye lo'e me, tell me now --; The lover's address to Rose bud --; Cease, cease my dear friend to explore --; Auld Robin Gray --; Leith Wynd --; Whistle o'er the lave o't --; Tak your auld cloak about ye --; Happy clown --; Donald and Flora --; By the delicious warmness of thy mouth --; Sun gallop down the westlin skies --; O, were I on Parnassus Hill --; Song of Selma --; The captive ribband --; There's a youth in this city --; My heart's in the Highlands --; John Anderson my Jo --; Ah, why thus abandon'd &c. --; Deil tak the wars --; Awa whigs awa --; Ca' the ewes to the knowes --; Highland song --; The jolly beggar --; I loe na a laddie but ane --; I'll mak you be fain to follow me --; The bridal o't --; Merry hae I been teethin a heckle --; A mother's lament for the death of her son --; The white cockade --; Oran gaoil, a gallic song translated by a lady (As on an eminence I stood a musing) --; Sandy o'er the lee --; Todlen Hame --; The braes o' Ballochmyle --; The rantin dog the daddie o't --; The shepherd's preference --; My Mary dear, departed shade --; Hardyknate, or, The Battle of Largs --; Eppie Adair --; The Battle of Sherra-moor --; Sandy and Jockie --; The bonie banks of Ayr --; John o' Badenvond --; Frennett Hall --; Young Jockey was the blythest lad --; A waukrife Minnie --; Tullochgorum --; For a' that an' a' that --; Willie brew'd a peck o' maut --; Killiecrankie --; The ewie's wi' the crooked horn --; The blue-eyed lassie --; The banks of Nith --; Tam Glen --; Drap o' capie O --; On the restoration of the forfeited Estates 1784 --; The Campbell's are comin --; Get up and bar the door.; Volume II.; Volume 4.; Craigie-burn wood --; Frae the friends and land I love --; Hughie Graham --; My goddess woman --; John come kiss me now --; I've been courting at a lass --; Peas strae --; A Southland Jenny --; Cock up your beaver --; O laddie I maun lo'e thee --; Let me in this ae night --; My tochers the jewel --; Then guidwife count the lawin --; The whistle --; There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame --; What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man --; The bonie lad that's far awa --; The auld goodman --; O as I was kist yestreen --; Fine flowers in the valley --; I do confess thou art sae fair --; If e'er I do well 'tis a wonder --; The soger laddie --; Where wad bonie Annie ly --; Galloway Tam --; As I cam down by yon castle wa' --; Lord Ronald my son --; O'er teh moor amang the heather --; Sensibility how charming --; To the rose bud --; Yon wild mossy mountains --; Bonie laddie Highland laddie --; It is na, Jean, thy bonie face --; Donald Couper --; The vain pursuit --; Eppie McNab --; Wha is that at my bower door --; Thou art gane awa --; Thou art gane awa, new sett --; The tears I shed &c. --; The bonny wee thing --; Roy's wife of Alldivaloch --; Lady Randolph's complaint --; Come here's to the nymph that I love --; The tither morn --; A country lass (with, Geordie, an old ballad) --; Ae fond kiss, &c. --; As I was a wand'ring --; Lovely Davies --; The weary Pund O' Tow --; Now westlin winds --; I hae a wife o' my ain --; O fare ye weel my auld wife --; O, for ane and twenty Tam --; Johnie Armstrang --; Hey how Johnie lad --; Logie o' Buchan --; O Kenmare's on and awa, Willie --; Bess and her spinning wheel --; My collier laddie --; The shepherd's wife --; William's ghost --; Nithsdall's welcome hame --; Johnie Blunt --; Country lassie --; Fair Eliza --; Fair Eliza --; Muirland Willie --; The wee wee man --; Ye Jacobites by name --; The poor thresher --; The posie --; The banks o' Doon --; Donocht-head --; Sic a wife as Willie had --; Lady Mary Ann --; Such a parcel of rogues in a nation --; Kellyburnbraes --; Evanthe --; Jocky fou, and Jenny fain --; Ay waking oh --; Patie's wedding --; The slaves lament --; Orananaoig, or, The song of death --; Afton water --; Bonie Bell --; Green sleeves --; The gallant weaver --; Sleepy body --; I love my jovial sailor --; Hey ca' thro' --; While hopeless, &c. --; O can ye labor lea, young man --; On the death of Delia's linnet --; The deuks dang o'er my daddie --; As I went ont ae May morning --; She's fair and fause, &c. --; The De'il's awa wi' th' exciseman --; Miss Weir.; Volume II (continued).; Volume 5.; The lovely lass of Inverness --; A red red rose --; Old set, Red red rose --; Mary Queen of Scots lament --; A lassie all alone --; The wren's nest --; Peggy in devotion --; Jamie o' the glen --; O gin ye were dead Gudeman --; My wife has taen the gee --; Tam Lin --; Here's a health to them that's awa --; Auld lang syne --; Louis what reck I by thee --; Had I the wyte she bad me --; The auld man, &c. --; Comin thro' the rye, 1st sett --; Comin thro' the rye, 2d sett --; Young Jamie pride of a the plain --; Out over the Forth, &c. --; Wantonness for ever mair --; The humble beggar --; The rowin't in her apron --; The boate rows, first sett --; The boatie rows, second sett --; The boatie rows, third sett --; Charlie he's my darling --; As Sylvia in a forest lay --; The lass of Ecclefechan --; The cooper o' Cuddy --; Widow, are ye waking? --; The maltman --; Leezie Lindsay --; The auld wife ayont the fire --; For the sake o somebody --; The cardin o't, &c. --; The souters o' Selkirk --; Rock and wee pickle tow --; Tibbie Fowler --; On hearing a young lady sing --; There's three gude fellow ayont yon glen --; O can ye sew cushions --; The glancing of her apron --; Waly, waly, a different set --; She says she lo'es me best of a' --; The bonie lass made the bed to me --; Sae far awa --; Put the gown upon the bishop --; Hallow fair, There's fouth of braw jockies, &c. --; I'll never love thee more --; My father has forty good shillings --; Our goodman came hame at e'en, &c. --; Sir John Malcolm --; Lizae Baillie --; The reel o' Stumpie --; I'll ay ca' in by yon town --; Will ye go and marry Katie --; Blue bonnets --; The broom blooms bonie --; The rantin laddie --; The lass that winna sit down --; O May thy morn --; My Minnie says I manna --; The cherry and the slae --; As I came o'er the Cairney mount --; Highland laddie --; Chronicle of the heart --; Wilt thou be my dearie --; Lovely Polly Stewart --; The Highland balon --; Auld king Coul --; The rinaway bride --; Bannocks o' oear meal --; Wae is my heart --; There was a silly shepherd swain --; Kind Robin looes me --; We'll put the sheep head in the pat --; Here's his health in water --; The maid gaed to the mill --; Sir Patrick Spence --; The wren, or, Lennox's love to Blantyre --; Gude Wallace --; The auld man's mare's dead --; The winter of life --; Godo morrow, fair mistress --; The haws of Cromdale --; No dominies for me, laddie --; The taylor --; There was a wee bit wiffikie --; There grows a bonie brier bush &c. --; Could aught of song --; O! dear what can the matter be --; Heres to thy health my bonie lass --; Jenny's bawbie --; It was a' for our rightfu king --; The Highland widow's lament --; Gloomy December --; Evan Banks.; Volume II (continued).; Volume 6.; My Peggy's face --; My boy Tammy --; Red gleams the sun --; O steer her up and had her gaun --; When I gaed to the mill --; Whar' Esk its silver stream --; Row fastly, thou stream --; As I went o'er &c. --; O cherub content --; As walking forth --; The Battle of Harlaw --; O Bothwell bank --; Wee Willie Gray --; When the days they are lang --; The banks of the Dee --; Scenes of woe and scenes of pleasure --; Go to Berwick Johnny --; 'Twas at the shining mid-day hour --; Have you any pots or pans --; Now bank an' brae --; Ae day a braw wooer, &c. (with, The Queen o' the Lothians cam cruisin to Fife) --; Gudeen to you kimmer --; In Brechin did a wabster dwell --; Willy's rare, and Willy's fair --; My daddy left me &c. --; Stern winter has left us --; Stern winter has left us, second sett --; Ah Mary sweetest main --; Anna, thy charms my bosom fire --; Thy cheek is o' the rose's hue --; O ay my wife she dang me --; Come under my plaidy --; Come follow, follow me --; Lord Thomas and fair Annet --; William and Margaret --; What ails the lasses at me --; The sun in the west --; Scroggam --; O tell me my bonny &c. --; O Mary turn awa --; O gude ale comes &c. --; Robin shure in hairst --; Wha wadna be in love &c. --; A cogie of ale, and a pickle ait meal --; The Dumfries Volunteers --; He's dear dear to me &c. --; The blue bells of Scotland --; Colin Clout --; 'Tis nae very lang sinsyne --; O once I loved --; When I think on my lad --; Return homeward --; My lady's gown there's gairs upon't --; May morning --; Dinna think bonie lassie I'm gaun to leave you --; O gin I were fairly shot o' her --; Hey my kitten my kitten --; Sweetest May --; Argyll is my name --; An' I'll awa to bonny Tweed-side --; Gently blaw &c. --; In yon garden, &c. --; The poor pedlar --; You ask me charming fair --; O ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten --; How sweet is the scene - Sure my Jean --; How sweet this lone vale --; Jockey's ta'en the parting kiss --; What's that to you --; Little wat ye wha's coming --; O leave novels &c. --; O lay thy loof in mine lass --; Saw ye the thane &c. --; Go plaintive sounds --; Bruce's address to his army --; Farewell y fields &c. --; O heard ye e'er of a silly blind harper --; My Nannie O --; As I lay on my bed on a night --; The rain rins down &c. --; Cauld is the e'enin blast --; O turn away those cruel eyes --; O Mary ye's be clad in silk --; There was a bonie lass --; No churchman am I --; The Highlander's lament --; There news lasses news --; Hard is the fate of him who loves --; Ye muses nine, O lend your aid --; Nelly's dream --; O that I had ne'er been married --; O gin my love were yon red rose --; Nae luck about the house when our goodwife's awa --; Liv'd ance twa lovers in yon dale --; O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet --; Tell me Jessy tell me why --; I care na for your een sae blue --; Good night and joy be wi' you a'.

ISBN

0931340292

LCCN

91189380 /M

OCLC

26403983

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