The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . I will sing a rant - in sang The day our king comes owre the put on my brid - al goun The day our king comes owre the water. ismg. I hae seen the gude auld day, The day o pride and chieftains glory,When royal Stuarts bore the sway, And neer heard tell o Whig nor lyart be my locks and grey, And eild has crookd me doun—what matter!I 11 dance and sing ae other day, That day the king comes owre the water. A curse on dull and drawling Whig, The whining, rantin, low deceiver,Wi heart sae black, and look sae big, An
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . I will sing a rant - in sang The day our king comes owre the put on my brid - al goun The day our king comes owre the water. ismg. I hae seen the gude auld day, The day o pride and chieftains glory,When royal Stuarts bore the sway, And neer heard tell o Whig nor lyart be my locks and grey, And eild has crookd me doun—what matter!I 11 dance and sing ae other day, That day the king comes owre the water. A curse on dull and drawling Whig, The whining, rantin, low deceiver,Wi heart sae black, and look sae big, And cantin tongue o clishmaclaver !My father was a gude lords son, My mother was an earls daughter,And I 11 be Lady Keith again The day our king comes owre the water. When the King comes owee the water. This is said to be a genuine old Jacobite song, though itis not known to have appeared earlier than in Hoggs Jacobite Relics (1819). He says in a note, It seemsto have been composed by the Lady Marischall, or by some kindred bard in her name. Her maiden namewas Lady Mary Drummond, daughter of the Earl of Perth. She was a Roman Catholic, and so stronglyattached to the exiled family, that on the retu
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