Scotish Ballads and Songs, Volume 1James Maidment |
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Aberdeen Agnew Aldivalloch ancient Athole Highlanders auld baith ballad BATTLE OF ROSLINE beginning o't boatie rows bonny laddie brave brume C. K. SHARPE canna Castle Cary Charley Cock ma cary collection cuddy daughter dear death deir doth Duke Duncan Graham Edinburgh Edited Editor fair Falkirk father forpet Francis Sempill Froggy Gilderoy gin ye lo'e Glasgow graif ha'e hear heart Hearts of oak Highland James John Johnny King laddie will take lady Laird of Logie Lass gin ye Lord Lord Mohun Maggy mair married Murray MUSIC OF SCOTLAND ne'er never night noble painful plow Peggy printed Queen Robin Hood Roy's wife says Scotch Scotish Scotland Scots Sempill Sing stall copy sung syllabub take me awa thee there's no bonny thing thou town unto verses waking wasna Willy young Logie zour
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Page 170 - Heart of oak are our ships, Heart of oak are our men, We always are ready : Steady, boys, steady ! We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
Page 113 - For I'ma piper to my trade, My name is Rob the Ranter ; The lasses loup as they were daft, When I blaw up my chanter. " " Piper,
Page 32 - By those whom I oblig'd, Rewarded me much ill for good, And left me no refuge. For Braco Duff, in rage enough, He first laid hands on me : And if that death would not prevent, Avenged would I be.
Page 209 - This thief got off his horse, With courage stout and bold, To search this old man's bags, And gave him his horse to hold. The old man put foot in stirrup, And he got on astride, He set the thief's horse in a gallop, — You need not bid th
Page 31 - My very heart would surely break, When this I think upon. Did not my courage singular, Bid pensive thoughts begone. No man on earth that draweth breath, More courage had than I; I dar'd my foes unto their face, And would not from them fly...
Page 159 - Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch, to Mrs. Murray of Bath ; while George Thomson, and all other editors of Scottish song, impute it to Mrs. Grant of Carron. I am not aware that the authorship has been settled— and 1 am sorry for it ; because whoever wrote it has favoured us with.
Page 210 - I've met a fond fool by the way, I swapt horses and gave him no boot; But never mind," said the old man, "For I got the fond fool by the foot.
Page 22 - To sad despair, Into some wilderness, My grief I will express, And thy hard-heartedness, O cruel fair. Have I not graven our loves On every tree In yonder spreading groves, Tho...
Page 208 - THIS story I'm going to sing, I hope it will give you content, Concerning a silly old man That was going to pay his rent. With a till da dill, till a dill, dill, Till a dill, dill a dill, dee, Sing fal de dill, dill de dill, dill, Fal de dill, dill de dill, dee.
Page 209 - You should not have told any body, For thieves they are ganging many : If they were to light upon you They would rob you of every penny. O! never mind, says the old man, Thieves I fear on no side ; My money is safe in my bags, In the saddle on which I ride.