The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . h, 14thMarch, 1848. I regret I cannot give you any direct information regarding the author of The braes aboon years ago, R. A. Smith wrote me, inquiring if I were the author of the song. In reply, I answeredthat the song was written before I was born, and that my father, then living, believed it to be the composition of asecond cousin of his own, who, in early life, went abroad, and died shortly after. The few families of Gilfillan inScotland almost all count kin; the history of the clan being as follows :—Origina
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . h, 14thMarch, 1848. I regret I cannot give you any direct information regarding the author of The braes aboon years ago, R. A. Smith wrote me, inquiring if I were the author of the song. In reply, I answeredthat the song was written before I was born, and that my father, then living, believed it to be the composition of asecond cousin of his own, who, in early life, went abroad, and died shortly after. The few families of Gilfillan inScotland almost all count kin; the history of the clan being as follows :—Originally it belonged to the Isle of Mull;but, during the feudal wars, was overcome by a more powerful clan, and completely extirpated. Two of the widows, however, by a coincidence, bore each twin sons, from whom we have all sprung My father wrote occasional verses on local subjects, but none of them were ever printed. 206 SCOTTISH SONGS. THE CAULD CAULD WINTERS GANE, LUVE. ASS., MT WTFE HAS TA EN THE GEE. ARRAXGED BY J. T. SURENNfc. 104 MODERATO OON fW=£ i^^^a^l^i^gi^ £=4^ ^ » -J=±j=£=£=3j£=* cauldcauld winters gane, luve, Sae bitter and sae snell;1 And spring has come a - gain, hive, To
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