A collection of some of Burns’ songs, including ‘Green grows the Rashes, O”; “There was a lad was born in Kyle”; “My Nannie, O”; “Kenmure’s on and awa”; “O’ a’ the airts the Wind can blaw”; “For a’ that and a’ that”; “Blythe was she”; “To Mary in…
A collection of songs and ballads. In the first, when a young soldier in the king’s guard must leave to fight for his king, his sweetheart begs to accompany him in disguise as a fellow soldier, causing strife between the two as he is sent abroad to…
Two ballads are presented here. The first tells the tale of young woman who is stolen away from her home in Dundee by a Highland lord. He takes her away to be his bride, but she refuses to have him. She manages to get a letter to her love, John Hay,…
An uplifting tale of the power of love in conquering the trials of life. Allen, a young man slowly becomes blind. The blindness causes him to despair, most especially because he feels he must now break off his betrothal to his childhood sweetheart,…
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