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Four Excellent Songs; VIZ: The Boatie Rows. The Lass of Patie's Mill. Jock O' Hazlebean. Tak' your auld cloak about ye.
A collection of songs and ballads. The first song wishes speed to a fishing vessel, as well as describing some simple celebrations of love and home life, while the second song describes the beauty and allure of the young lass who has stolen the…
Four Popular Songs, Viz: Alice Gray. My Mither men't my auld breeks, Will the Weaver, and O Wat Ye Whas in Yon Town.
A collection of songs and ballads on a variety of topics, including a song describing the heartbreak of love unreturned; a humorous ballad of a young man who swaps his mother for a bride; an abbreviated version of a popular tale in which a man,…
The Hallow Fair; To which are added, Queen Mary's Lamentation, The Contented Lover, Ungrateful Nanny, Homeward Bound
A collection of several songs and ballads. The first song humorously depicts the ridiculousness of country courting, while in the second song Queen Mary bewails her fate in prison on the eve of her execution. In two more songs on the theme of love…
The Highland Piper's Advice. To drinkers. To which are added: Home, sweet sweet home Wallace's Lament Connel and Flora Here is the glen Oh Hey Johny lad and Charlie is my darling.
A collection of several songs and ballads, including: a song in broad Scots expounding upon the joys of drinking; a reminiscence on the pleasures and beauty of home to one exiled; a lament for the fallen warriors following the defeat of Wallace; a…
