The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . dants to sing the old Scottish ballad, Cold and raw the north did blow. Now Cold and raw had then been only recently written by Tom dTJrfey, and was therefore neither old nor Scottish. At thattime the music of our country was in fashion in England, and it was customary to call every simple airScottish, whether it possessed any other claim to the title or not. The music-books of the period literally swarm with such tunes, frequently giving the name of thecomposer ; so that there was no idea of nationality necessarily attached to th
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . dants to sing the old Scottish ballad, Cold and raw the north did blow. Now Cold and raw had then been only recently written by Tom dTJrfey, and was therefore neither old nor Scottish. At thattime the music of our country was in fashion in England, and it was customary to call every simple airScottish, whether it possessed any other claim to the title or not. The music-books of the period literally swarm with such tunes, frequently giving the name of thecomposer ; so that there was no idea of nationality necessarily attached to them, any more than there is tothe Schottisch of our own times. Mr. Chappell gives the successive names of the air in England as Stingo, or, The oyle of barley, du-ingthe Commonwealth ; The country lass, under Charles II., and Gold and raw, under James II. SeePopular Music of the Olden Time. IMJTU 68 SCOTTISH SONGS. MUIRLAND WILLIE. 3 ARRANGED BY J. T. SURENNiJ. =72 ANIMATO. < ^^UMk^4,JSJ « -^-«-» f mf ei rft^l^^ ^ E =£3=E=:^ MmjSU [O] hearkn, and I will. k=J= s ^-r-^-:=^3=g=F SEjE -d—*-7i d J- ?*_? d ¥ -4 «—« tell you how Young Muir - land Wil - lie cam here to woo, Tho he could nei - ther # i=^=^f ^b ?f T r BS q—f—q- •1 J i S te-f P g ^^P fa=^=P=g St nor do; The truth I tell to -»- I -J-— you. But aye he cries, What • A \ -t—5 =h BE iM^-W-*!-*- -p—- -g- -* Z-T- MTTTRLAND WILLIE. 69 £=F 1^=fe-fc :<?-«?:: -r-v =& -* •—— fal da ra, fal eer be - tide, Mag - gy Ise hae to be my bride, With a
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