Robert Burns Songs

Deluded Swain, The Pleasure Song Tune— The Collier’s Dochter. Deluded swain, the pleasure The fickle Fair can give thee, Is but a fairy treasure, Thy hopes will soon deceive thee: The billows on the ocean, The breezes idly roaming, The cloud’s uncertain motion, They are but types of Woman. O art thou not asham’d To […]

Robert Burns Song Farewell To Eliza Tune— Gilderoy. From thee, Eliza, I must go, And from my native shore; The cruel fates between us throw A boundless ocean’s roar: But boundless oceans, roaring wide, Between my love and me, They never, never can divide My heart and soul from thee. Farewell, farewell, Eliza dear, The […]

My Spouse Nancy Song Robert Burns Tune— My Jo Janet. Husband, husband, cease your strife, Nor longer idly rave, Sir; Tho’ I am your wedded wife Yet I am not your slave, Sir. One of two must still obey, Nancy, Nancy; Is it Man or Woman, say, My spouse Nancy?’ If ’tis still the lordly […]

Fragment Of Song No cold approach, no altered mien Robert Burns No cold approach, no altered mien, Just what would make suspicion start; No pause the dire extremes between, He made me blest—and broke my heart.

How Cruel Are The Parents Robert Burns Song Altered from an old English song. Tune— John Anderson, my jo. How cruel are the parents Who riches only prize, And to the wealthy booby Poor Woman sacrifice! Meanwhile, the hapless Daughter Has but a choice of strife; To shun a tyrant Father’s hate— Become a wretched […]

Highland Mary Robert Burns Song Tune— Katherine Ogie. Ye banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o’ Montgomery! Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie: There Simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last Farewell O’ my sweet Highland Mary. How […]

The Song Of Death Robert Burns Song Tune— Oran an aoig. Scene—A Field of Battle. Time of the day—evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song. Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies, Now gay with the broad setting sun; Farewell, loves and […]

The Battle Of Sherramuir Song Tune— The Cameronian Rant. O cam ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi’ me, man? Or were ye at the Sherra-moor, Or did the battle see, man? I saw the battle, sair and teugh, And reekin-red ran mony a sheugh; My heart, for fear, gaed sough […]

Robert Burns Songs Tune— My Nanie, O. Behind yon hills where Lugar flows, ‘Mang moors an’ mosses many, O, The wintry sun the day has clos’d, And I’ll awa to Nanie, O. The westlin wind blaws loud an’ shill; The night’s baith mirk and rainy, O; But I’ll get my plaid an’ out I’ll steal, […]

Inconstancy In Love Robert Burns Song Tune— Duncan Gray. Let not Woman e’er complain Of inconstancy in love; Let not Woman e’er complain Fickle Man is apt to rove: Look abroad thro’ Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty Law is change, Ladies, would it not seem strange Man should then a monster prove! Mark the winds, and […]