The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . I m S^E 0 0 m 0 0 7f—P 3=^-4 thinkin ot, wi tbinkin ot, wi thinkin ot, Ill aye be canty wi thinkin When I gang afield, and come hame at een,Ill get my wee wifie fu neat and fu clean,And a bonnie wee bairnie upon her knee,That will cry papa or daddy to bide ye yet, &c. An if there should happen ever to beA difference atween my wee wifie an me,In hearty good humour, although she be teasd,Ill kiss her and clap her until she be bide ye yet, &c. Bide ye yet. The song first appeared in Herds Collection (1776), and
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . I m S^E 0 0 m 0 0 7f—P 3=^-4 thinkin ot, wi tbinkin ot, wi thinkin ot, Ill aye be canty wi thinkin When I gang afield, and come hame at een,Ill get my wee wifie fu neat and fu clean,And a bonnie wee bairnie upon her knee,That will cry papa or daddy to bide ye yet, &c. An if there should happen ever to beA difference atween my wee wifie an me,In hearty good humour, although she be teasd,Ill kiss her and clap her until she be bide ye yet, &c. Bide ye yet. The song first appeared in Herds Collection (1776), and with its tune in JohnsonsMuseum (1787). Recently (1877), under the name of March Tune, the air has been included in HoffmannsSelection from Dr. Petries Irish Airs. As there are no explanatory notes to that volume, it is not knowneither when or where Dr. Petrie obtained it. He was so scrupulously exact, however, that we may besure he had what he believed to be satisfactory reasons for considering it to be an Irish tune; but as wahave had not only this song, but an earlier one (1769), sung to it for more than a century, the evidenceis very strong in favo
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