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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Ann thou were &c.
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Of Race divine thou needs must be,
Since nothing earthly equals thee; So I must still Presumptious be To show how much I lo'e thee Ann thou were &c. |
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The Gods one thing peculiar have,
To ruin none whom they can save; O! for their Sake support a Slave, Who only lives to lo'e thee. Ann thou were &c. |
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To merit I no Claim can make,
But that I lo'e, and for your Sake, What Man can name, I'll undertake, So dearly do I lo'e thee. Ann thou were &c. |
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My Passion, constant as the Sun,
Flames stronger still, will ne'er have done, Till Fates my Threed of Life have spun, Which breathing out, I'll lo'e thee. Ann thou were my ain Thing, I wou'd lo'e thee, I wou'd lo'e thee, Ann thou were my ain Thing, How dearly wou'd I lo'e thee. |