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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Gin I gae alang with you ye ma' na fail,
To feed me wi' Croudie and good hakit Kail, What needs a' this Vanity Jenny Quo' he, Is not Banocks and dribly berds good meat for thee. |
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Gin I gae alang with you I man' ha'e a Silk Hood,
A Kirtle Sark wylie Coat and a Silk snood, To tye up my Hair in a Cockernonie, 'Out away thou's gane wood I trow Jenny Quo' he. |
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Gin you wa'd ha'e me look bony and shine like the Moon,
I man' ha'e Katlets and Patlets, and Camerel heel'd shoon, And Craig-cloaths and Lugg-Babs and Rings twa or three, 'Out the Deel's in your Vanity Jenny Quo' he. |
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Sometimes I am troubl'd with Gripes in my Wemb,
Gin I get nae stouries I shall my Sel' shame, I'le rift at the Rumple and gar the wind flee, Deel stap a Cork in your doup Jenny Quo' he. |
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Gin that be the care you take ye may gae Loup,
For sick'na silly Hurtcheon shall ne'er skelp my doup, 'Out away gae be hang'd Lousie Laidie Quo' she, Deel scoup o' your Company Jenny Quo' he. |