Annotations of Scottish Songs By Burns An Essential Supplement to Cromek And Di
Annotations of Scottish Songs By Burns An Essential Supplement to Cromek And Di
Davidson Cook
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It is in the first book, which Mr Dick dates 1782, })ut which Mr Frank Kidson, an even greater authority on Anti(|uarian Music, says he has good proof was earlier — about 1775-6. 18 Item 11 : " Little wats thou o' thy Daddie, hiney. " — This is another scrap of song not noted by Cromek. The tune, '■ Elsie Marley, " is in" Bremner's Beels, 1759, and in later Collections, including Gow's Fourth Repository. Item 12 : " The Kiyuj o' France he rade a race. '' — This hitherto unpublished Note has a s...pecial interest, because it unexpectedly furnishes us with a verse of the old song which Burns used as a model for " Amang the trees where humming bees, " published in Cromek's Reliques, 1808, p. 453, to the tune, " The King of France he rade a race. " In his last two lines — He fir'd a fiddler in the North That dang them tapsalteerie, O, it will be seen how closely Burns followed the original, and taking the verse as a whole, how little he was indebted to it. Item 13 : " Rob shoor in hairst.
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