The year that’s awa’. Waes me for Prince Charlie. A man without a wife. Blythe, blythe, an’ merry are we. The Irish farmer. Kelvin Grove. The dashing white sergeant

Waes me for Prince Charlie.

A man without a wife.

Blythe, blythe, an’ merry are we.

The Irish farmer.

Kelvin Grove.

The dashing white sergeant.

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers

1829

8 pages

16 cm

Chapbook #17 in a bound collection of 37 chapbooks (s0042b27)

A collection of Scottish ballads on a variety of themes and topics, including: a toast in memory of years past; a Jacobian lament for Bonnie Prince Charlie; a humorous misogynistic portrayal of wives as both the best part of marriage and the worst; a drinking song; a song about the marriage of an Irish farmer and his wife and the lives they have made for themselves; a love song to a bonnie lassie from a soldier who is departing; and a song about a girl who wishes she could be a “dashing white sergeant” in an “army of amazons” if there was such a thing.

Scotland

Ballads and songs

Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788

Courtship and Marriage

Jacobites

Highlands

War

Wit and Humor

Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow

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University of Glasgow Union Catalogue of Scottish Chapbooks http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/chapbooks/search/

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