The Book of Scottish Song

THE

BOOK OF SCOTTISH SONG;

COLLECTED AND ILLUSTRATED

WITH

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES.

By ALEX. WHITELAW.

BLACKIE AND SON,

QUEEN STREET, GLASGOW; SOUTH COLLEGE STREET, EDINBURGH:

WARWICK SQUARE, LONDON.

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MDCCCXLIII.

 

GLASGOW:
W. G. BLACKIE AND CO.
PRINTERS.

 

AULD SCOTIA'S SANGS.

[Written for this Work by John Imlah.]

Auld Scotia's Sangs! Auld Scotia's Sangs!—the strains o' youth and yore!—
O lilt to me, and I will list—will list them o'er and o'er;
Though mak' me wae, or mak' me wud,—or changefu' as a child,
Yet lilt to me, and I will list—the "native wood notes wild!"

They mak' me present wi' the past—they bring up, fresh and fair,
The Bonnie Broom o' Cowden Knowes, the Bush abune Traquair,
The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, or the Birks o' Invermay,
Or Catrine's green and yellow Woods in autumn's dwining day!

They bring me back the holms and howes whar siller burnies shine,
The Lea-rig whar the gowans glint we pu'd in Auld Lang Syne;
And, mair than a', the Trystin' Thorn that blossom'd down the vale,
Whar gloamin' breathed sae sweetly—but far sweeter luve's fond tale!

Now melt we o'er the lay that wails for Flodden's day o' dule,—
And now some rant will gar us loup like daffin' youth at Yule;—
Now o'er young luve's impassion'd strain our conscious heart will yearn,—
And now our blude fires at the call o' Bruce o' Bannockburn!

O! lovely in the licht o' sang the Ettrick and the Tweed,
Whar shepherd swains were wont to blaw auld Scotia's lyric reed;—
The Logan and the Lugar, too, but, hallow'd meikle mair,
The Banks and Braes o' bonnie Doun,—the Afton and the Ayr!

The hind whase hands are on the pleugh—the shepherd wi' his crook—
The maiden o'er the milkin' pail, or by the ingle neuk,
Lo'e weel to croon auld Scotia's sangs—O may they ever sae!
And it may be a daffin' lilt—may be a dowie lay!

Though warldly grief and warldling's guile maun I like ithers dree,
Maun thole the sair saigh rive my breist—the het tear scald my e'e!
But let me list the melodies o' some o' Scotia's sangs,
And I will a' forget my waes—will a' forgie my wrangs!

O! born o' feeling's warmest depths—o' fancy's wildest dreams,
They're twined wi' monie lovely thochts, wi' monie lo'esome themes;
They gar the glass o' memorie glint back wi' brichter shine
On far aff scenes, and far aff friends—and Auld Lang Syne!

Auld Scotia's Sangs!—Auld Scotia's Sangs!—her "native wood notes wild!"
Her monie artless melodies, that move me like a child;
Sing on—sing on! and I will list—will list them o'er and o'er,—
Auld Scotia's Sangs!—Auld Scotia's Sangs!—the sangs o' youth and yore!

 

Song sweetens toil, however rude the sound:
⁠All at her work the village maiden sings:
Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around,
⁠Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.

GIFFARD.

 

Title	Page
Tullochgorum	1
Ettrick Banks	2
Fee him, Father	2
Scornfu' Nancy	3
The Lea Rig	3
Bide ye yet	4
Bonnie Chirsty	4
My only jo and dearie, O	5
Up amang yon cliffy rocks	5
The Brier Bush	6
Gree, bairnies, gree	6
There lives a young lassie	7
Bonnie Mary Hay	7
My wife has ta'en the gee	7
Roy's Wife	8
Highland Minstrel Boy	8
My Highland home	8
My Nannie, O	9
Mary of Castle-Cary	9
Hey, my bonnie wee lassie	10
The Bridal Day	10
The Bush aboon Traquair	11
The Widow's Lament	11
Nora's Vow	12
The Laird o' Lamington	12
The Auld Gudeman	13
Fare ye weel, my Auld Wife	13
The Old Scottish Gentleman	14
Two Original Songs by Tannahill	15
Blue bonnets over the border	15
Ah, Chloris	16
The Soldier's Grave	16
The Minstrel Sleeps	16
The Rose of Allandale	17
Bess the Gawkie	17
O tell me how to woo thee	18
It fell on a Morning	18
Old King Coul	19
Willie was a wanton wag	20
Bonnie Lady Ann	20
Sae flaxen were her ringlets	21
Sing on, sing on	21
Jock o' Hazeldean	22
The Laird o' Cockpen	22
The Emigrant's Farewell	23
Maid of my Heart	23
Logan Braes	24
For ever, Fortune	24
Logan Water	25
Sailor and Shepherdess	25
Farewell to Funery	26
Donald Couper	27
Tho' simmer smiles	27
The Waukin' o' the Fauld	27
The Ewe-Bughts	28
Will ye go to the Indies	28
Lizzy Lindsay	29
Hooly and Fairly	29
Hooly and Fairly	30
We're a' noddin'	30
Tibbie Dunbar	31
Come under my Plaidie	32
The lovely lass of Inverness	32
The lovely lass of Inverness	33
Charlie he's my darling	33
Broom of Cowdenknows	34
A red, red Rose	35
Low down i' the Brume	35
Tell me, thou soul	36
O the weary siller	36
The Trysting Tree	36
Oh, Poverty	37
My Bessie	37
Bonnie Aggie Lang	38
Neidpath	39
Esabell	39
There was a lass	40
My jo Janet	40
My spouse, Nancy	41
Loudon's bonnie woods	41
Somebody	42
Somebody	42
Jessie o' the Dell	43
I'll gar our Gudeman	43
Hame, hame, hame	43
John Highlandman	44
The White Cockade	44
Lament of Flora M'Donald	44
Dumbarton's Drums	45
The Old Man's Song	45
Our gudeman cam' hame	46
The Birks of Invermay	47
Ah, the poor Shepherd	48
Kath'rine Ogie	48
Highland Mary	49
Mary Morison	49
Jeanie Morrison	50
Blue-eyed Anne	51
Such a parcel of rogues	51
O where, tell me where	52
The Scottish Blue Bells	53
John Anderson, my jo	54
Old Long Syne	55
Auld Lang Syne	56
Auld Lang Syne	56
The Campbells are coming	57
Tam o' the Balloch	57
Dirge of Wallace	58
Wallace's Lament	58
The Rowan Tree	59
The Emigrant's Complaint	59
I dream'd I lay	60
Jenny's Bawbee	60
Tibbie Fowler	61
Genty Tibby	62
Willie Wastle	62
My ain dear Land	62
Scotland's Hills	63
Kail brose of Old Scotland	63
Broad Swords of Scotland	64
Song of Death	64
When I rov'd	65
The bride cam' out o' the byre	65
The grass had nae freedom	66
The Old Maid	66
Donald Macdonald	67
Dundee	68
The bonnie Redesdale Lassie	68
O Jeanie	69
The Shepherd's Song	69
Lucy's flittin'	70
Captain Wedderburn	70
Todlin' Hame	71
Todlin' Hame	71
The Totums	73
Lewis Gordon	73
Connel and Flora	74
Allen-a-dale	74
O, saw ye the lass	74
John o' Badenyon	75
The Wee Wifukie	76
Contented wi' little	77
Her Name	78
Wilt thou remember me	78
Sweet Jeanie lass	78
I had a dream	78
Fishing Song	79
Hame	79
The Happy Mother	80
Wae's me for Prince Charlie	80
The New Year	81
The Woods of Dunmore	81
Duncan Gray	82
Duncan Gray	82
Auld Rob Morris	82
Auld Rob Morris	83
Rob's Jock	83
Hey, Jenny	84
Maggie's Tocher	84
Muirland Willie	85
Banks o' Doon	86
Banks o' Doon	87
Bonnie Prince Charlie	87
See the Moon	87
The Ewie	88
Their groves o' sweet myrtle	89
My heart's in the Highlands	89
Romance of Dunois	90
Native Caledonia	90
Land o' the Leal	91
The Auld Cloak	91
The Barring o' the Door	92
Tam Glen	92
The Carle	93
The Wanton Wife	93
The Gude Farmer	94
Symon and Janet	94
Oh ono chri oh	95
The Gaberlunzie-man	96
"It's weel it's nae waur"	97
Scotland	97
"A good old Song"	97
Dainty Davie	98
The Gardener wi' his paidle	98
Lucky Nancy	98
Symon Brodie	99
The Blythsome Bridal	99
Hallow-fair	100
Slichtit Nancy	101
The winter sat lang	101
I'll aye ca' in	102
O, wat ye wha's	102
O, thou hast seen	103
O sair I rue	103
Ye Jacobites by Name	103
The Nabob	104
What care I	105
What ails this heart	105
The Toom Pouch	106
The bricht Star	106
The Lawlands of Holland	107
A lassie cam' to our gate	107
Barrochan Jean	108
When Maggie gangs away	108
The Thistle and the Rose	109
The Covenanter's Lament	109
My Mary	110
The Rantin' Highlandman	110
Earl March	110
Ae Happy Hour	111
My Johnnie	111
Tak' tent now, Jean	111
Nae luck about the house	112
The Hameward Song	113
Peggie	113
Peggie	114
My ain Bonnie May	114
The Evening Star	114
Low Germanie	115
The Hills o' Gallowa'	115
The Braes of Ballahun	116
Cessnock Banks	116
Young Jocky	117
The lad that's far awa'	117
The Chelsea Pensioners	118
Dear Highland Laddie	118
The Mason Laddie	119
The Deil cam' Fiddlin'	120
For lack of Gold	120
I gaed a waefu' gate	121
Gi'e me a lass	121
Hey for a lass	121
O gin ye were but mine	122
Love's like a dizziness	122
Sing on	123
I'm ower young	123
Polwarth on the Green	123
'Twas summer tide	124
The rinaway bride	124
Exile of Uldoonan	125
Clout the Caldron	125
The Lass's Wardrobe	126
Lass, gin ye wad lo'e	126
The Lass o' Cambuslang	127
The want o' Siller	127
The Auld Man's Mear	128
Johnnie Cope	129
When lonely thou wander'st	130
The Maid I lo'e	130
Benlomond	131
The lass ayont the hill	131
The mighty Munro	131
Wha is she that lo'es me	132
The Hills of the Heather	132
Jessie	133
The Shepherd Boy	133
Glenaray	133
Dowie in the hint o' hairst	134
On wi' the Tartan	134
My sheep I neglected	134
Colonel Gardiner	135
Were na my heart licht	135
The Banks of the Dee	136
Merry may the keel row	137
My ain Countrie 1	137
Lochaber	137
Wooing Song	138
My ain countrie 2	138
O gin I were	139
Phœbe Graeme	130
The Three Lasses	139
Hills o' Caledonia	140
The Kiss ahint the Door	140
The Prince's Street Beau	141
I wander'd alane	141
Beechen Tree	142
I'm wandering wide	142
Poor me	143
Border Song	143
The Thistle	144
Jocky said to Jenny	145
Within a mile of Edinburgh	145
Jocky met wi' Jenny	145
How can my poor heart	146
Turnimspike	147
The Auld Highlandman	147
Shon M'Nab	148
Ta Offish	149
Lauchie's Promotions	150
Tugal M'Taggart	150
The Black Eagle	151
Mary's Dream	151
The Smiling Plains	152
My heid is like to rend	152
Dirge of a Highland Chief	153
Callum-a-Glen	153
John Tod	154
John Maut	154
When the kye come hame	155
The Brakens wi' me	155
The Flower o' Dunblane	156
The Braes o' Gleniffer	156
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu	157
Macgregor's Gathering	157
Donald Caird	158
Saw ye nae my Peggy	158
The year that's awa'	159
Here's a health	159
Bruce's Address	160
O'er hill and dale roamin'	161
How blythely the pipe	161
Behave yoursel' before folk	162
Jockie's far awa'	163
It's no that thou'rt bonnie	163
I'll awa' hame	164
The Maid of Dunmore	164
My mither men't	165
Corn Rigs	165
Rigs o' Barley	166
Wifie, come hame	166
Laddie, oh, leave me	167
Forget na', dear Lassie	167
Battle of Sheriff-Muir	168
Up and waur them a'	170
Battle of Sheriff-Muir	171
Battle of Sheriff-Muir	172
The Drygate Brig	173
Pompey's Ghost	174
Roslin Castle	174
The gloomy night	175
Jamie Gay	176
Jockey	176
Deil tak' the wars	177
The Lover's Salute	177
Mark yonder pomp	177
The Miller	178
The Dusty Miller	178
My Fiddle and me	179
Auchtertool	179
The Group	180
I'll lo'e thee, Annie	181
My Mammy	181
My Peggy's Face	181
Strathallan's Lament	182
Beware o' bonnie Ann	182
O Cherub Content	182
Where Gadie rins	183
Thou'rt sair alter'd	183
Fare thee weel	183
We've drunk to them	184
My Ain Wife	184
St. Andrew's Day	185
The sun had slipped	185
I neither gat	186
Donald of Dundee	186
The Lass o' Isla	186
The Maid's Remonstrance	187
Taste life's glad moments	187
Here's to thee, my Scottish lassie	188
The Witch on the brae	189
My ain Fireside	190
Andro and his cutty gun	191
Blythe was she	191
Blythe and cheerie	192
The Social Cup	192
Scotia's Sons	192
Strathbungo Jean	193
Kelvin Grove	193
Welcome Summer	194
Dunoon	194
I ance knew content	195
On the Death of Burns	195
Glendochart Vale	196
I winna gang back	196
Cradle Song	196
The Hazlewood Witch	197
Farewell to Ayrshire	197
The Pride o' the Glen	198
Love is timid	198
The Flower of Caledonia	199
Somebody	199
Charming Nancy	199
The Auld Gudeman	200
Ha'e ye seen	200
The Auld Highlan' Piper	201
There's nae laddie coming	201
Maggy Maclane	202
Auld Robin Gray	204
Whistle o'er the lave o't	206
The Land o' Bonnets Blue	206
Marriage and the care o't	206
Vittoria	207
Boat Song	207
Mary's twa lovers	208
O love delights	208
The Banks of the Devon	209
Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks	209
Craigie-burn-wood	209
Craigie-burn-wood	210
The Braes aboon Bonaw	210
When Autumn	211
The Social Cup	211
Allister M'Allister	212
The Glasgow Fair	212
Jamie	214
Meg o' Marley	214
Nancy	214
He's owre the hills	214
A Boy's Song	215
Mary Shearer	215
Row weel, my boatie	216
Willie brew'd a peck o' maut	216
Willie brew'd a peck o' maut (sequel)	216
The Soldier's Return	217
Song to Maria	218
The Cock-Laird	218
Henry	219
Cock up your beaver	219
Jenny dang the Weaver	219
Cromlet's Lilt	220
Had I a cave	221
Phillis the fair	221
Adown winding Nith	221
Halucket Meg	222
Bannocks o' barley	223
Argyll is my name	223
Janet Dunbar	224
The Collier's bonnie lassie	224
The Collier Laddie	225
Deluded Swain	225
Hie to the woodlands, hie	225
The Woodlark	226
As gloaming was drawing	226
Helen of Kirkconnell	227
Yonder sunny brae	227
I canna sleep	228
The Star of Glengary	228
I'm naebody noo	228
Lament for the Bards	229
The Weaver's Wife	229
To my auld Wife	230
Handsome Nell	230
The Banks of the Esk	231
My Highland Vale	231
The blind lassie	231
The Thorn Tree	232
Soldier, rest	232
The Boatie Rows	233
The Lark and Wren	234
The Evening Shade	234
For a' that	234
For a' that	235
Tune your Fiddles	235
Ye gods	236
Cauld Kail in Aberdeen	237
Cauld Kail in Aberdeen	237
Cauld Kail in Aberdeen	238
The Cogie	238
Let Topers sing	239
Life aye has been	239
Highland Whisky	239
Farewell to Whiskey	240
Up in the air	240
Wilt thou be my dearie	241
O, my love's bonnie	241
Loch-Erroch Side	241
Young Peggy	242
The Cogie	242
O, are ye sleeping, Maggie	242
Handsome Katie	243
This is the night	243
She rose and let me in	244
Thou art gane awa'	244
Let me in this ae night	245
Let me in this ae night (her answer)/	245
Forlorn, my love	246
Rob Roy Macgregor	246
Here's a health	246
Scotland yet	247
Janet and Me	247
Bonnie lassie	248
Tak' it, man, tak' it	248
Campsie Glen	249
Caledonia	249
I have listen'd	249
Bonnie Mysie	250
How eerily, how drearily	251
Jeanie Graham	251
The Spinnin' Wheel	252
Nae mair we'll meet	252
The simmer sun	253
Sorrow and Song	253
A' body's like to be married	253
Nicol Jarvie's Journey	254
The old Scotch air	254
The woods of Dunmore	255
Janet Macbean	255
The Curler's Song	255
The Linnet	256
Tee-total Song	256
Red gleams the sun	257
Sweet's the dew	257
And can thy bosom	258
The Heathy Hills	258
Glen-na-H'Albyn	258
Maggie Lauder	259
The Joyfu' Widower	260
Though Boreas bauld	260
Auld Janet Baird	261
The Wee Auld Man	261
The guid, guid wife	262
A cogie o' yill	262
Donald Gunn	263
Miss Weir	263
Hey the Hielan Heather	264
They're a' teasing me	264
The Lass o' Preston Mill	264
The simmer morn	265
The Land o' Cakes	265
The Heather Bell	265
The Flowers of Edinburgh	266
Scotland dear	266
Mary Cowley	267
Sae will we yet	267
Blythe are we set	267
The land for me	268
If on earth	268
O give me the ear	269
The Lark	269
The Tweed	269
Hurra for the Highlands	270
The Dainty Bit Plan	270
A wet sheet	271
My bonnie Wife	271
The Lass o' Arranteenie	272
She's fair and fause	272
My Jamie	272
A Lassie Fair	273
The Broomy Brae	273
Gloomy Winter	273
The Highland Laddie	274
Bonnie George Campbell	274
Rob Macgregor	275
Bauldy Baird	275
Heather Jock	276
The Wearie Body	276
Willie Waggletail	277
The Wanter	277
Bannocks o' Barley	278
Lizy Liberty	278
Maclaine	279
Oh, take me to yon sunny isle	280
The days o' auld Langsyne	280
Wae be to the orders	281
Glen-Orra	282
Anna	282
Her kiss was soft	282
How ardently	283
In Summer	283
The Breist-knots	284
Bonnie Peggy	284
The Unhappy Father	284
My heart's my ain	285
Say not the Bard	285
Jamie o' the Glen	286
There's none to soothe	286
Kind Robin lo'es me	287
Loch Cathrine	287
Lullaby	287
The bashfu' Wooer	288
Honest men	288
The lass o' Haddington	289
Can ye lo'e me	289
The years of Youth	289
Bonnie Mary Græme	290
My first and last love	290
The circle of Friendship	291
The weel-tocher'd Lass	291
Bonnie Jean	292
Her blue rollin' e'e	292
The banks o' Glaizart	292
Mary, O	293
The Plaidie	293
The spinning o't	293
The bud on the brier	294
Daintie Davie	294
Lassie wi' the raven locks	295
Blue-eyed Anne	295
What ails you, Pate	296
Mary	296
Bessie's Lamentation	297
Fair Helen	297
The Lass o' Netherlee	297
Hie, bonnie lassie	298
Old Nanny's Song	298
The lassie o' the glen	298
The Farewell	299
Poor Mary	299
Carle Time	300
The autumn leaves	300
Matrimonial Happiness	301
Johnnie and Mary	301
One day I heard Mary	302
My Nannie's awa'	302
Sae merry as we ha'e been	303
Hap me wi' thy petticoat	303
The Country Lass	304
Amang the Heather	304
The Lass o' Livingstone	305
Address to a Lady	305
The Crook and Plaid	306
Prince Charles Edward	306
The Scotsman's Farewell	307
How hard's the fate	308
Jeanie's black e'e	308
When life was gay	308
Farewell to Avondale	309
Hush, ye rude breezes	309
O'er the mist-shrouded	309
The Wanderer's Return	310
Wee Johnny Duncan	310
Cuttie's Wedding	311
Behold the hour	311
My bonnie Mary	311
O lassie I lo'e dearest	312
Advice to the Lasses	312
Lay of the Hopeless	312
Where are they	313
Welcome Jamie hame again	313
The Yellow-Hair'd Laddie	314
Peggy and Patie	314
On Whitsunday morning	315
All joy was bereft me	315
Her bonnie black e'e	316
While some to distant	316
The Campsie Lassie	317
My Jeanie and I	317
The Folk at Lindores	317
Nan of Logie Green	318
The Beggar	318
O weel's me	318
Jeanie Graham	319
Thy fatal shafts	319
Bonnie Mary Halliday	319
The Evening Star	320
Speak not of love	320
Corunna's lone shore	320
The light of Glen Fruin	321
The Bonnie Bride	322
Bonny Mary	322
The unco bit want	322
Colin Clout	323
The Lady of my Love	324
Far, far away	324
The Highland Soldier	325
The Campbell's Pibroch	325
Caledonians, brave and bold	325
Fair in Kinrara	326
Scotland and Charlie	326
The Maid of Islay	326
Donald is no more	327
O'er the mountain	327
The wood of Craigie-lea	327
Langsyne, beside	328
A famous man	328
Know'st thou the land	328
I'll twine a wreath	329
The wee primrose	329
When summer's sun	329
The Weaver	330
Away to the mountains	330
The Highland Maid	330
Cheerly, Soldier	331
Comin' thro' the rye	331
Comin' thro' the rye	332
Oh, dinna ask me	332
The silken-snooded lassie	332
Rest awhile with me	333
Twine weel the plaiden	333
The Cooper of Fife	333
The bonnie red ribbon	334
Willie wi' his wig a-jee	334
O, whistle	334
Come hame to your lingels	335
Lass gin ye lo'e me	335
Patie's Wedding	336
I lo'ed ne'er a laddie but ane	337
Here awa', there awa'	337
Wandering Willie	338
Eskdale Braes	338
The lily of the vale	339
The Day Returns	339
Where shall the lover rest	339
The way for to woo	340
The Highland Lassie	341
To Mary in Heaven	342
Song of the Stars	342
The tears I shed	343
The Non-Descript	343
The Braes o' Bedlay	344
Afton Water	344
Here is the glen	345
The auld Man's Lament	345
Macpherson's Rant	346
Macpherson's Farewell	346
Habbie's frae hame	347
On the wild braes of Calder	348
Calder braes	348
The Vale of Clyde	348
The tither morn	349
Lanark Mills	349
The troops were embark'd	350
When first I saw	350
Last May a braw Wooer	351
O merry row	351
Emigrant's Death Song	352
Wifie and me	352
The bonnie Moor-hen	352
Louisa's but a lassie	353
Sailor's Wife's Song	353
There is a bonnie flower	353
Draw the sword	354
The Ploughman	354
Sweet Susan	354
I'll cheer up my heart	355
I ha'e lost my love	355
O'er the muir	356
O'er the muir	356
Scotland and Charlie	357
Gin e'er I'm in love	357
The Braes of Mar	358
The Cauldrife Wooer	359
The Maid of Glenconnel	359
The Bridal o't	360
The Spinnin' o't	360
What's a' the steer	361
The Lomond	361
Bessie Bell & Mary Gray	362
Iona	362
Oscar's Ghost	363
Culloden Muir	363
Jumpin' John	363
O wake thee	364
I ha'e nae kith	364
Gae to the kye wi' me	364
Oh, Helen dear	365
The days of old	365
Eliza	365
The waes o' Scotland	366
The Covenanter's Tomb	366
Gloamin'	366
I canna smile	367
Ye bonnie haughs	367
Wha's at the window	368
The Flowers of the Forest	368
African Song	369
Loch-na-gar	369
We'll meet beside	369
Wap at the Widow	370
The bonnie brucket lassie	370
I had a horse	371
Puirtith Cauld	371
The Lass o' Patie's Mill	372
Cadogan's Lament	372
The Minstrel	373
The Barn, O	374
Coila's Bard	374
O, leave me not	375
Love	376
The Flittin' o' the Cow	376
Mary	376
The setting Sun	377
Oh, I lo'ed	377
The Husband's Song	377
The Window Pane	378
The primrose blooms	378
Now Jenny, lass	379
Janet	379
Sandy	380
Summer Wooing	380
The Auld Folks	381
Highland Mary	381
Queen Mary's Lament	382
The Making o' the Hay	382
Love's Adieu	383
Highland Coronach	383
Wearie's Well	384
The kind breath o' Summer	384
I heard the evening linnet's voice	385
The Home of my Fathers	385
The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katie	386
Alloa House	387
Oh, how could I venture	387
The unco Grave	388
Raven's stream	388
Cameron's Welcome hame	388
Gin ye meet a bonnie lassie	389
My Native Land	390
The Shipwreck	391
The black-haired laddie	391
The Rover o' Lochryan	391
Mary	392
Mary Macneil	392
Leddie Anne	393
The Waits	393
O Nancy's hair	393
Farewell	394
Isabell	394
Culloden	394
Hill of Lochiel	395
Red is the Rose	395
When we two parted	396
The Ingle Side	396
The Bonnie Rowan Bush	396
Marion	397
The Captive Huntsman	397
The Hills of the Highlan's	397
The banks of Tarf	398
Now lanely I sit	398
Absence	399
While frequent on Tweed	399
Fair modest flower	400
Wee Johnnie	400
Lovely Mary	401
'Neath the wave	401
The Mermaiden	401
Lenachan's Farewell	402
Life's a faught	402
The Corbie and Craw	403
The Tod	403
My Mother bids me bind	403
In airy dreams	404
Remembrance	404
The Farewell	404
Indian Death Song	404
Wedded Love	405
Time cannot blot	405
Our gudeman	405
My luve's in Germany	406
Winter, wi' his cloudy brow	406
Land of my Fathers	406
Farewell to the Land	407
The midges dance	407
Our bonnie Scots lads	407
Dinna think, bonnie lassie	408
O saft is the blink o' thine e'e	409
My Love	409
I winna be weel	409
Sandy Allan	410
Now spring again	410
When gowans sprinkl'd	411
My bonnie lassie's dead	411
The Jilted Nymph	411
Barbara Allan	412
My Heather Land	412
This is no mine ain house	413
This is no my ain house	413
This is no my ain lassie	414
This is no my plaid	414
The Lassie by the Loch	414
Fair fa' the Lasses	415
Our ain Land	415
The Trystin' Tree	416
Where Quair rins sweet	416
The Scotch Blue-bell	417
To the Clyde	418
Aikendrum	418
A canty Sang	419
We'll go to sea no more	419
Bonnie Ann	420
Our gudeman's an unco body	420
The leal light heart	421
O come with me	421
Up in the morning early	422
When I am far away	422
Bessie	423
Courtship	423
To Isabel	424
O Mary, turn awa'	424
The Tocherless Lass	424
A steed, a steed	424
Myot's lofty brow	425
The Trystin' Tree	425
The Highland Character	426
The Narrow House	427
O saw ye my Father	427
Gude Coldstream toon	427
Ae fond kiss	428
Och, hey, Johnnie lad	428
Fair Eliza	428
The days of my youth	429
Blythe ha'e I been	429
What can a young lassie	429
Some love to roam	430
Lassie, would ye lo'e me	430
My Lowland Bride	430
Beneath a green shade	431
The Woods o' Castle Doune	431
The Thistle	432
O the Ewe-bughting's bonnie	433
Lovely Davies	434
Bonnie Wee Thing	434
O Leeze me on the Glen	435
The Mountaineer's Death	436
Kate of Aberdeen	437
Bet of Aberdeen	437
The Mariner	438
My Goddess, Woman	438
Annie Laurie	438
Up wi' the Widow	439
Prestwick Drum	439
Jockie's ta'en the parting kiss	440
"I canna be fashed"	440
Hap and Row	440
Keep the country	441
The lass that made the bed	441
'Twas na her bonnie blue e'e	441
Bothwell Bank	442
How sweet this lone vale	442
Logie o' Buchan	443
The Humble Beggar	443
She left us	444
Mary Gill	444
Strephon and Lydia	445
Gilderoy	445
Why hangs that cloud	446
Johnnie's Grey Breeks	446
Menie	447
Matilda	447
Blue-e'ed Mary	448
Tweedside	449
Tweedside	449
The Banks of Tay	450
When John and me	450
The Posie	451
Young Phemie	452
The Bonnie Scotch Lass	452
Leader Haughs and Yarrow	453
Leader Haughs and Yarrow	454
The Flower of Yarrow	454
Mary Scott	455
The Rose in Yarrow	455
Willie's drowned in Yarrow	456
The Braes of Yarrow	456
Busk ye, busk ye	457
The Braes of Yarrow	457
The Dowie Dens of Yarrow	459
Love's Constancy	459
Young Donald	459
The Wedding Day	460
Caledonia	460
Love inviting Reason	460
Old Scotland	461
Jockey fou, Jenny fain	461
When we were at the Schule	462
Back Again	462
The Wee Lassie	463
The Cardin' o't	463
Bring a' your maut	464
John Grumlie	464
The Widow's Dream	464
I mark'd a gem	465
Highland Harry	465
Ca' the Yowes	466
Ca' the Yowes	466
The widow's ae bit Lassie	467
Gather in	467
I kenna what's come o'er him	467
The cauld winter's gane	468
Ours is the land	468
My faithful Somebody	468
Po'k-head Wood	469
A Nursery Rhyme	469
Farewell, ye Streams	470
By Allan Stream	470
I've loved thee, love	471
The Auld Brig-stane	471
The Bonnie Wee Wifie	472
Her bonnie black e'e	472
The Lass of Ballochmyle	473
O ye wha here	474
My boy, Tammy	474
The secret lover	475
Captain Paton's Lament	475
Ha'e ye seen	477
Happy Friendship	477
They're a' teasing me	477
Killiecrankie	478
Tranent Muir	479
Doun the burn, Davie	480
I cam' o'er the muir	481
The Braes of Branksome	481
Sweet the Bard	482
Auld Peter M'Gowan	482
The Happy Clown	483
Bonnie Jeannie Gray	483
There'll never be peace	484
Lament	484
O Mally's meek	485
The waes of Scotland	485
The Young Maxwell	486
My dear little Lassie	486
Phemie	487
The Light of the Moon	487
The Emigrant's Farewell	488
'Twas nae her bonnie blue e'e	488
O gin my love	489
The yellow-haired Laddie	489
It is na, Jean	490
Arran Maid	490
The bright sun had given	490
O'er the Water to Charlie	491
Royal Charlie	491
Native Land	491
Dumbarton's bonnie Dell	492
Garryhorn	492
The Esk	492
O wat ye wha	493
My dearie, if thou dee	493
Wattle's the waur o' the wear	493
Haud awa'	494
Haud awa'	495
I'll tend thy bower	495
Farewell, ye haunts of joy	496
Tarry woo	496
My wife's	497
She is a winsome	497
Though dowie's the Winter	497
Peggy, I must love thee	498
O, dinna think	499
Gala Water	499
An thou were my ain thing	500
To Daunton me	501
The Banks of Forth	501
The Bonnie Scot	502
Pinkie House	502
Ower Bogie	503
Bonnie Jean	503
John Hay's Bonnie Lassie	504
Hamilla	504
I'll never leave thee	505
Tranent Wedding	506
The toom Meal pock	507
The Poor Man	507
The Women Fo'k	508
I'll no wake	508
Caledonia	509
Birniebouzle	509
Auld John Nicol	510
The Ladies' Evening Song	510
Kirk wad let me be	511
The Winter of Life	511
Bess and her Wheel	511
My love is but a lassie	512
Come, let me take	512
Duncan M'Cleary	512
The Wren	513
A Lassie's Wonders	513
With waefu' heart	513
The Cottar's Sang	514
The hour of Love	514
Through the wood, laddie	515
Green Sleeves	515
There's my thumb	516
I'll gar ye be fain	517
Adieu for a while	517
The Blaithrie o't	518
The Blaithrie o't	518
Blink o'er the burn	519
Sweet Betty	519
The wee German Lairdie	520
O brother Sandie	520
Why do ye tarry	521
Waly, Waly	521
Glancing of her Apron	522
Birks of Abergeldy	522
Birks of Aberfeldy	523
The Man in Aberdeen	523
Get up, gudewife	524
Jamie frae Dundee	524
Tell me, Dear	525
Hey, how, my Johnnie lad	525
Woe's my heart	526
The Highland Queen	526
There's plenty come to woo me	527
Norland Jockey	527
The Soger Laddie	527
Patie and Peggie	528
Cold, cold's the hand	528
The Waefu' Heart	528
Lady Onlie	529
Theniel Menzies' Mary	529
Katy	529
O lay thy loof in mine	530
O that I had ne'er married	530
My Wife she dang me	530
In yon Garden	530
Bobbing John	531
Robin shure in hairst	531
Anna	531
Fairly shot of her	532
O gude ale comes	532
The Siller Crown	532
O Mary, ye'se be clad	533
Evan Banks	533
The Lass of Pittenweem	534
Kate o' Gowrie	534
The Lass o' Gowrie	535
Cherry Valley	535
Cockle-Leerie-La	536
Doctor Monroe	536
The Stuarts of Appin	537
Adieu for evermore	539
A weary lot is thine	539
Willie Winkie's Testament	540
My Lady's Gown	540
The Wild Glen	541
The Hawthorn Tree	541
Is your war-pipe asleep	542
Woo'd and married and a'	543
The Lass o' Carron side	543
How early I woo'd thee	544
Not the swan on the lake	544
The bonnie House o' Airly	545
A Rose-bud	546
Tho' we ne'er should meet	546
The merry Ploughman	546
O, were I on Parnassus	547
A Wife o' my ain	547
Bonnie Lesley	548
My love she's but a lassie	548
Peggy	549
Gloomy winter's come again	549
Sweet Annie	550
Lament for Jamie	550
Lovely Polly Stewart	551
Ane-and-twenty, Tam	551
When she cam' ben	551
Hame	552
The dying Girl's song	552
The Land of Cakes	553
Despairing Mary	554
Of a' the airts	555
Dear Roger, if your Jenny	555
O, as I was kist	556
The Lasses a' leugh	556
October Winds	557
O'er the muir to Maggy	557
Mary's Grave	557
Oh hon a ri	558
Love at Thirty-nine	558
The Dumfries Volunteers	558
Gudewife, count the lawin	559
He is gone on the mountain	559
Carle, an the king come	560
Peggy, now the king's come	560
Gilderoy	560
At setting day	562
The heath this night	562
The Blythesome Lad	562
Mary Gray	562
The deuks dang o'er	563
Mary Shaw	563
The Highland Seer	564
St. Mungo's Kirk-yard	564
O, Kenmure's on and awa'	566
Donald Macgillavry	566
Go to him, then	567
The Harper of Mull	567
Here's to the king, sir	568
Landlady count the lawin	568
The Robin's Testament	569
The Highland Baloc	569
My Wife shall ha'e her will	569
Lord Gregory	570
Open the door to me	570
My auld Man	570
Go to Berwick, Johnnie	571
The Landart Laird	571
Lassie, lie near me	571
The Thistle of Scotland	572
Sweet Robin	573
The Big-bellied Bottle	573
My Gudeman	573
The Black-e'ed Lassie	574
Bonnie Dundee	574
Auld Uncle Watty	575
Daft Days	575
One star of the morning	576
Bonnie Jean mak's muckle	576
Married the Morn	576
Jeannie's Bosom	577
Young Jamie	577
As I cam' down	577
O, wha's that	578
The Farewell	578
John, come kiss me now	578
The Highland Widow	579
The Auld Gudeman	579
The weary pund o' tow	580
Galloway Tam	580
There dwalt a man	580
The Banks of Aith	581
The Gallant Weaver	581
Ungrateful Nannie	582
I'll never love thee more	582
Sly Widow Skinner	583
The Braes o' Ballochmyle	583
Blackford Hill	584
The bloom hath fled	584
Push about the Glass	584
My sweet wee laddie	585
A Lullaby	585
The Bumper	585
Thou gloomy Feberwar	586
Julia	586
The Deceiver	586
To Arms	587
The month of July	587
Sweet is the dawn	587
Sanct Mungo	587
The Quern Lilt	588
Sweet May	588
Braxfield Braes	589
Fairest of her days	589
The Mitherless Bairn	589
Omnia vincit amor	589
Poor little Jessie	590
Sandyford Ha'	591
The Maid o' Montrose	591
O hast thou forgotten	592
Highland Mother's Lament	592
Alake for the Lassie	592
Mary Dhu	593
The Lady of my Heart	593
Bleaching her claes	594
I am married	594
Mary Lee's Lament	595
O Tibbie	595
The Widow sae Young	595
Adieu	596
Good night and joy	596
Index of First Lines	597
Index of Authors	607