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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When ever our Bauty does Bark,
Then saft to the Door I do rin, To see gin ony young Spark, Will light and venture in. But ne'er a ane comes in, Tho' mony a ane gaes by, Syne Ben the House I rin, And a weary wight am I. |
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I had an auld wife to my Minny,
And (wow) gin she keept me lang, But now the Carlin's Dead, And I'll do what I can. And I'll do what I can, Wi' my Twenty Pound and my Cow. But wow it's an unco' thing That na Body comes to woo. |