Scottish Song: Its Wealth, Wisdom, and Social SignificanceW. Blackwood and sons, 1889 - 388 páginas |
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... upper classes by making them pendants to a centralising metropolis out- 1 C Sydney Dobell , in a note to the " Market - Wife Song " in England in Time of War . ' Fashionable Society . 19 side of their natural home , 18 Scottish Song .
... upper classes by making them pendants to a centralising metropolis out- 1 C Sydney Dobell , in a note to the " Market - Wife Song " in England in Time of War . ' Fashionable Society . 19 side of their natural home , 18 Scottish Song .
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... wives , " be left to the streets and to the ballad - singers ! . Leaving these devotees of a spurious gentility in the West - End paradise where they delight to display their painted faces and their gilded fans , we shall now endeavour ...
... wives , " be left to the streets and to the ballad - singers ! . Leaving these devotees of a spurious gentility in the West - End paradise where they delight to display their painted faces and their gilded fans , we shall now endeavour ...
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... wife , in nine cases out of ten with a little patience and a little management will have her own way , as in the fol- lowing ditty , too rarely sung , which smacks of the good old times when Nature was not afraid to be Nature , and ...
... wife , in nine cases out of ten with a little patience and a little management will have her own way , as in the fol- lowing ditty , too rarely sung , which smacks of the good old times when Nature was not afraid to be Nature , and ...
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... wife a week but only four , When sitting sae mournfully at my ain door , I saw my Jamie's wraith , for I couldna think it he , Till he said , I'm come back , love , to marry thee . O sair did we greet , and mickle did we say ; We took ...
... wife a week but only four , When sitting sae mournfully at my ain door , I saw my Jamie's wraith , for I couldna think it he , Till he said , I'm come back , love , to marry thee . O sair did we greet , and mickle did we say ; We took ...
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... wife to be , For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me . The authoress of this beautiful ballad , Lady Anne Barnard , like many of the most distinguished members of the Scottish peerage , belonged to a family of Norman ex- traction , whose ...
... wife to be , For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me . The authoress of this beautiful ballad , Lady Anne Barnard , like many of the most distinguished members of the Scottish peerage , belonged to a family of Norman ex- traction , whose ...
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Ae fond kiss Amang auld baith ballads Baroness Nairne Battle of Sheriffmuir bawbee beautiful blaw boatie rows bonnie lassie braes brave braw Burns cauld Cockpen Culloden dear doon drink drinking-song Edinburgh English fair Flowers frae Gaelic gane glen Glen Tilt Greek gude ha'e hae nane hame heart heather Hielan Highland bonnets Highland laddie hills honour human humour hundred pipers ilka Jacobite Joanna Baillie John Johnnie Johnnie Cope kail brose Kenmure's king lady Laird land lass lassie lived lo'e Lord love-songs lyrical mair married maun mony Muse nane but Highland native natural ne'er never noble o'er owre patriotic poet poetry popular song Robert Burns Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish song sing social song-writers sorrow Soumin sung sweet thee There's nae thou verse wadna weel wife wise young
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Página 384 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 172 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa', Let him follow me!
Página 384 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Página 122 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Página 155 - When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food, It ennobled our hearts, and enriched our blood; Our soldiers were brave, and our courtiers were good: Oh the roast beef of old England, And old England's roast beef!
Página 106 - It's a' to pleasure our gudeman, For he's baith leal and true. Rise, lass, and mak a clean fireside Put on the muckle pot ; Gie little Kate her cotton gown, And Jock his Sunday coat ; And mak their shoon as black as slaes, Their hose as white as snaw ; It's a' to please my ain gudeman, For he's been long awa'.
Página 126 - The snawdrap and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the weet o' the morn ; They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw, They mind me o
Página 299 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more.
Página 90 - Langley-dale; His step is first in peaceful ha', His sword in battle keen" — But aye she loot the tears down fa
Página 64 - Glen? My minnie does constantly deave me, And bids me beware o' young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me; But wha can think sae o