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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O Had I ta'en Counsel of Father or Mother,
Or had I ta'en Counsel of Sister or Brother, But I was a young thing and easie to woo, And my Belly bears up my apron now. |
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Thy apron Deary I must confess,
Is something the shorter tho' naething the less, I never was wi' ye a night but two, And yet ye cry out my apron now. |
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My apron is made of a lineum Twine,
Well set about wi' pearling syne, I think it great Pity my Babe shou'd tyne, And I'll row it in my apron fine. |