The Songs of Robert Burns, Now First Printed With the Melodies for Which They Were Written; a Study in Tone-Poetry, With Bibliography, Historical Notes, And Glossary
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In the Centenary Bums, 1897, it is shown that the original is Who but I, quoth Finlay, ' a new song much in request, sung with its proper tune ' ; a prosaic production of seven stanzas, of which a broadside copy is in Lord Rosebery's collection, beginning :— ' There dwells a man into this town. Some say they call him Finlay ; He is a brisk and an able man — O, if I knew but Finlay 1 ' Nearly all the incidents were taken from this song, but it is as brass to the told of Burns's humorous verses. ...The find disposes of the myth that they were written on James Findlay of Tarbolton, the exciseman, and a colleague of ^The tune bears the title of the chorus of an old song, as follows :— 'Lass, an I come near thee, Lass, an I come near thee, I'll gar a' your ribbons reel Lass, an I come near thee.' 414 HISTORICAL NOTES A fragment of a different kind, in two stanzas for the same tune, is in the Herd MS. A wife replies to her husband :— ' Say 't o'er again, say 't o'er again — Ye thief, that I may hear ye; I'se gar ye dance upon a peat Gin I sail come but near ye.' In Findlay's MS., c.
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