The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . p=&2i&£gEm^m f=p= teEgf ±JEZ w heart on Tweed - side! Shes brown as the zel nut ripe; Shes ?a- . B* Sp^|jJipg|pL^l v5 (9- * Maids 0 SWEET ARE THY BANKS. BONNIE TWEED ! 93 m^mmmmmm grace - fu1 as young bip - ken tree; Her 0= m^m smiles like the glint o spring. I wood her when puirtiths cauld handLay sair on hersel an her kin; But though I had plenty o gear,She ay said, My tochers to win! 0 sweet are thy banks, bonnie Tweed ! And sweeter the mays wha there bide;But sweetest of a is the lass Wha bauds fast my heart on Tweedside ! Twe
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . p=&2i&£gEm^m f=p= teEgf ±JEZ w heart on Tweed - side! Shes brown as the zel nut ripe; Shes ?a- . B* Sp^|jJipg|pL^l v5 (9- * Maids 0 SWEET ARE THY BANKS. BONNIE TWEED ! 93 m^mmmmmm grace - fu1 as young bip - ken tree; Her 0= m^m smiles like the glint o spring. I wood her when puirtiths cauld handLay sair on hersel an her kin; But though I had plenty o gear,She ay said, My tochers to win! 0 sweet are thy banks, bonnie Tweed ! And sweeter the mays wha there bide;But sweetest of a is the lass Wha bauds fast my heart on Tweedside ! Tweedside. The composer of this old and beautiful Scottish melody is unknown. Some persons, upon nofoundation of evidence, have given to David Rizzio the credit of its composition. In the last century, JamesOswald, a very unscrupulous man, ascribed several of our Scottish melodies to Rizzio, for the purpose of enhancingthe value of his collections of Scottish airs in the eyes of the public. That Oswald frequently passed off hisown tunes in private as the compositions of Rizzio, we learn from the following lines of a poem printed in theScots Magazine, 1741 :— When wilt thou teach our soft iEidian [Edinian ?] fair To languish at a false Sicilian air; Or when some tender tune compose again, And cheat the town wi David
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