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The songs of Scotland : containing one hundred and forty-three songs / collected and edited with new accompaniments by M. B. Foster.

Author/creator Foster, Myles Birket, 1851-1922
Other author/creatorFoster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899 editor.
Format Musical Score and Print
Edition[Royal ed.].
Publication InfoLondon : Boosey, [1878?]
Descriptionvolumes ; 26 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Vol.2: A country lass -- Adieu, Dundee! -- Ae nicht i' the gloaming (Air--Robin's awa') -- Alas! that I cam' o'er the muir -- An thou wert mine ain thing (Air--Mine ain thing) -- Accuse me not (Air--She rose and let me in) -- A rosebud by my early walk (Air--The shepherd's wife) -- Argyle is my name (Air--Bannocks of barley meat) -- A southland Jenny -- At Polwart on the green (Air--Polwart on the grass) -- At Willie's wedding on the green / Rev. Mr. Gardner of Birse, Aberdeenshire -- Auld King Coul -- Away, ye gay landscapes (Air--Lochnagarr) -- Baloo, my boy (Lady Ann Bothwell's lament) -- Bannocks o' bearmeal (Air--The Killogie) -- Behold, my love, how green the groves (Air--doun the burn, Davie) -- Beneath a green shade (Air--The braes o' Ballendyne) -- Bessie Bell and Mary Gray -- Bird of the wilderness (The skylark) / M.B.F. -- Bonnie Bessie Lee -- Bonny Bessy (Air--Bessey's Haggies) -- Bonnie Lizzie Baillie -- Come boat me over (Air--O'er the water to Charlie) -- Despairing Mary / John Wilson -- Donald -- Donald Caird's come again (Air of the 18th century) -- Drap o' capie, O! -- Draw the sword, Scotland -- Farewell, thou stream (Air--Nanny's to the Greenwood gone) -- Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall (Air--Derwentwater's Farewell) -- Gae to the kye wi' me, Johnny -- Go to Berwick, Johnny -- Guidwife, count the lawin (Air--Guidwife, count the lawin) -- Hardyknute (Air--The battle of Largs) -- Hail to the chief! -- Hame cam' our gudeman at e'en -- Hame, hame, hame! (18th century air) -- Heather Jock's noo awa' -- Her Daddy forbade (Air--Jumpin' John) -- Hey, the dusty miller (Air--the dusty miller) -- How sweet this lone vale (Gaelic air) -- Hughie Graham (Air--Drumion Dubh) -- How lang and dreary is the night (Gaelic air) -- I dreamed I lay where flowers were springing -- I ance was a wanter -- I bid my heart be still (Old border melody) -- I'll ha'e my coat o' gude snuffbrown -- I love my love in secret (Air--Sandy O) -- I'm a' doun for lack o' Johnnie -- I sing of a land (The Stuarts of Appin) / John Wilson -- It's up wi' the Souter o' Selkirk (Border bagpipe melody) / Arr. Finlay Dun -- I wish I war where Eelin lies! (Air--Fair Helen of Kirkconnel) -- John, come kiss me now -- Jeanie's black een -- Keen blaws the wind o'er Donocht-Head (Air--Mary's dream-old version) -- Kellyburnbraes -- Lady Mary Ann (Air--Craigston's growing) -- Macgregors' gathering -- Mary Macneil -- Mary of Argyle -- Mother, mother, hear the news -- Musing on the roaring ocean -- My father has forty good shillings -- My Harry was a gallant gay (Air--The highlander's lament) -- My love was born in Aberdeen (Air--The white cockade) -- O Bothwell Bank -- Och hey! Johnnie lad (Air--The lasses of the ferry) -- Oh, aye my wife she dang me (Air--My wife she dang me) -- Oh, can ye sew cushions (Old Highland cradle song) -- Oh, gin I were where Gadie rins (Bagpipe air--Where Gadie rins) -- Oh, Kenmure's on and awa', Willie -- Oh, bonnie was you rosy Brier (Old air--The wee, wee man) -- Oh, lay the loof in mine, Lass (Air--The Cordwainer's march) -- Oh, raging fortune's withering blast (Air--Tam Lin) -- Oh! thou art all so tender (Air--My love has forsaken me) -- Oh, wae upon that fearfu' deed (Air--Ochoin ochri, oh!) -- Oh! were I on Parnassus Hill (Air--My love is lost to me) --Oh, wha's at the window, wha, wha? / R.A. Smith -- Oh, wha's for Scotland and Charlie? (Jacobite air) -- O lassie, art thou sleeping yet (Air--Let me in this ae nicht) -- O love, thou delight'st in man's ruin (Air--Miss Weir) -- On Cessnock banks (Air--Salt fish and dumplings) -- O Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day (Air--Invercauld's reel) -- Out over the forth (Air--Charlie Gordon's welcome hame) -- O' mighty nature's handiworks or My goodness, woman (Air--The butcher boy) -- Peggie, now the king's come (Air--Carie, an the king come) -- Queen Mary's farewell to Alloa (Air--Ailoa house) -- Queen Mary's lament -- Rab Roryson's bonnet -- Rattlin' roarin' Willie (Air--Rattlin' roarin' Willie).
Contents Vol. 2 (cont.): Red gleams the sun -- Red, red is the path to glory! (Air--Stu mo run) -- Robin Tamson's smiddy (Air--The Taylor) -- Romantic esk! (Air--Fy, gar rub her o'er wi' strae) -- Sae far awa' (Air--Dalkeith Maiden Bridge) -- Sic a wife as Willie had (Air--The eight men of Moldart) -- Since all my vows, false maid (Air--Cromleck's lilt) -- The American war (Air--Gillicrankie) -- The auld man -- The Athole gathering -- The auld hoose -- The banks of the Devon (Air--Bhannerach dhon na chri) -- The battle of Killiecrankie -- The bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon' (Jacobite air) -- The collier's bonnie lassie -- The cooper o' Cuddie (Air--Bob at the bowster) -- The Carles o' Dysart, fisherman's song (Air--Hey, ca' through) -- The day returns (Air--The seventh of November) -- The glancing of her apron -- The highland widow's lament -- The hundred pipers -- The humble beggar -- The lass of Ecclefechan (Air--Jacky Latin) -- The maid that tends the goats -- The mirk night o' December (Air--O May, thy morn) -- Theniel Menzie's bonnie Mary (Air--The ruffians' rant) -- The northern lass -- There cam' a young man to my daddie's door (Air--The brisk young lad) -- There was a lass and she was fair (Air--Willie was a wonton wag) -- The smiling spring (Border melody) -- The sun rises bright in France -- The rural queen (Gaelic air--Gu ma slan a chi mi) -- The tither morn (Highland air) -- The women are a' gane wud -- The wren -- Todlen hame -- Thou art gane awa' frae me -- Thou bonnie wood of Craigielea -- Thou dark-winding caroon (Air--The maids of Arrochar) -- 'Twas na her bonnie blue e'e (Air--Laddie, lie near me) -- Wae is my heart (Air--Wae is my heart) -- We'll meet beside the dusky glen (Air--You burn-side) -- When merry hearts were gay (Air--Donald and Flora) -- When Maggie and I was acquaint (Air--Tweedside) -- When Phoebus bright (Air--Leader haughs and yarrow) -- With broken words, Colin and Grissy Parting (Air--Wae's my heart) -- Where ha'e ye been saw braw, lad? -- Young Peggie blooms our bonniest lass (Air--Peggie, I must love thee) -- Ye maun gang to your father, Janet (Air--Fair Janet) -- The Rowan tree (Air--Rowan tree) -- True-hearted was he (Air--Bonnie Dundee) -- The braes o' Glennifer (Air--Bonnie Dundee) -- Will ye no come back again? -- The march of the Cameron men -- The bonnie breast-knots -- Oh! why left I my hame -- The braes of Mar.
General noteVol 2: The songs of Scotland containing one hundred and fifty one songs. Ed by Myles B. Foster.

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