Album Summary: William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius (1725) was a landmark publication; the first ever large-scale collection of "Scotch Songs" in print — 50 songs arranged with un-figured bass, most with lyrics from Allan Ramsay's Scots Songs and Tea-Table Miscellany, plus an appendix of melodic reductions. It was an instant hit and in 1733, expanded into 2 volumes with 100 songs. Indeed, Thomson's Orpheus set the standard format for Scots Song settings for the rest of the eighteenth century, including those of Robert Burns in The Scots Musical Museum. This ScotMus.com album is a faithful reprint of the song arrangements from the historic 1st edition of 1725.
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Chorus
Come Hap me with thy Pettycoat,
My ain kind thing. Come Hap me with thy Pettycoat, My ain kind thing. |
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(2)
My ravish'd Fancy in amaze,
Still wonders o'er thy Charms, Delusive Dreams ten thousand ways, Present thee to my arms. But waking think what I endure, While cruel you decline, Those Pleasures which can only cure, This panting Breast of mine. Come Hap me &c. |
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I faint, I fail and wildly rove,
Because you still deny, The Just Reward that's due to Love, And let true Passion die. Oh! turn and let Compassion seise, That lovely Breast of thine; Thy Pettycoat could give me Ease, If thou and it were mine. Come Hap me &c. |
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Sure Heaven has fitted for delight,
That beautious Form of thine, And thou'rt to good its Laws to slight, By hindering the Design. May all the Powers of Love agree, At length to make thee mine, Or loose my Chains and set me free, From ev'ry Charm of thine. Come Hap me with thy Pettycoat, My ain kind thing. Come Hap me with thy Pettycoat, My ain kind thing. |
N.B. The Chorus is to be Sung only to the first part of the Tune.