The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . m fe5 £3Se£ -•-=- O thou broom, thou bon - me, bon - nie broom!. When wilt thou, thou bonnie bush o broom, Grow on a foreign strand ?That I may think, when I look on thee, Im still in loved Scotland ! But ah! that thought can never more be mine Though thou beside me sprang,Nor though the lintie, Scotias bird, Should follow wi its sang Thy branches green might wave at een,At morn thy flowers might blaw; But no to me, on the Cowdenknowes,Nor yet by Ettrick-shaw. 0 thou broom, thou bonnie bush o broom !Sae sweet to memory; 1 maist co
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . m fe5 £3Se£ -•-=- O thou broom, thou bon - me, bon - nie broom!. When wilt thou, thou bonnie bush o broom, Grow on a foreign strand ?That I may think, when I look on thee, Im still in loved Scotland ! But ah! that thought can never more be mine Though thou beside me sprang,Nor though the lintie, Scotias bird, Should follow wi its sang Thy branches green might wave at een,At morn thy flowers might blaw; But no to me, on the Cowdenknowes,Nor yet by Ettrick-shaw. 0 thou broom, thou bonnie bush o broom !Sae sweet to memory; 1 maist could weep for days gane by When I think on days to be. The bkoom o the Cowdenknowes. This is a very ancient and beautiful air of one strain. Thesong, to which the tune was originally united is, with the exception of the chorus, supposed to be regard to the melody given in this work, it is necessary to remark that in the Orpheus Caledonius(1725) and the older Scottish collections the air begins on the second note of the scale, while in PlayfordsDancing Master (1651) it begins on the fifth, and in Watts Musical Misc
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