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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DOUGHTER
Pray ha'd your Tongue Mither, & let yt abee, For his Eild and my Eild will never agree: They'll never agree, and that will be seen, For he is Fourscore, and I'm but Fifteen. |
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MITHER
Then ha'd your Tongue Doughter, & lay by yr Pride, For he's be the Bridegroom, and ye's be the Bride, He shall lye by your side, and kiss you too, Auld Rob Moris is the Man you maun loo. |
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DOUGHTER
That auld Rob Moris I ken him fou weel, His A__ it sticks out like ony Peet-Creel, He's out-shind, in-kneed, and ringle-eyd too; Auld Rob Moris is the Man I'll ne'er loo. |
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MITHER
Tho' auld Rob Moris be an elderly Man, Yet his auld Brass it will buy a new Pan; Then, Doughter, ye shoud na be sae ill to shoo, For auld Rob Moris is the Man you maun loo. |
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DOUGHTER
But auld Rob Moris I never will hae, His Back is so stiff and his Beard is grown Gray; I had titter die than live wi' him a Year, Sae mair of Rob Moris I never will hear. |