Robert Burns Songs

Heron Election Ballad, No. IV. Robert Burns Song The Trogger. Tune— Buy Broom Besoms. Wha will buy my troggin, fine election ware, Broken trade o’ Broughton, a’ in high repair? Chorus—Buy braw troggin frae the banks o’ Dee; Wha wants troggin let him come to me. There’s a noble Earl’s fame and high renown, For […]

A Man’s A Man For A’ That Song Tune— For a’ that. Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an’ a’ that; The coward slave—we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, an’ a’ that. Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The rank is but the guinea’s […]

Robert Burns Song Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr Tune— Roslin Castle. I composed this song as I conveyed my chest so far on my road toGreenock, where I was to embark in a few days for Jamaica. I meant it as myfarewell dirge to my native land. —R. B. The gloomy night is […]

The Braw Wooer Song Tune— The Lothian Lassie. Last May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen, And sair wi’ his love he did deave me; I said, there was naething I hated like men— The deuce gae wi’m, to believe me, believe me; The deuce gae wi’m to believe me. He spak o’ […]

The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm Robert Burns Song A Ballad. Tune— Come rouse, Brother Sportsman! Orthodox! orthodox, who believe in John Knox, Let me sound an alarm to your conscience: A heretic blast has been blown in the West, That what is no sense must be nonsense, Orthodox! That what is no sense must be […]

Suppressed Stanza’s Of The Vision Song After 18th stanza of the text (at His native land ):— With secret throes I marked that earth, That cottage, witness of my birth; And near I saw, bold issuing forth In youthful pride, A Lindsay race of noble worth, Famed far and wide. Where, hid behind a spreading […]

Song Bonie Peggy Alison Tune— The Braes o’ Balquhidder. Chor.—And I’ll kiss thee yet, yet, And I’ll kiss thee o’er again: And I’ll kiss thee yet, yet, My bonie Peggy Alison. Ilk care and fear, when thou art near I evermair defy them, O! Young kings upon their hansel throne Are no sae blest as […]

Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill Song Tune— The Quaker’s Wife. Blythe hae I been on yon hill, As the lambs before me; Careless ilka thought and free, As the breeze flew o’er me; Now nae langer sport and play, Mirth or sang can please me; Lesley is sae fair and coy, Care and […]

Raging Fortune Fragment Of Song Song O raging Fortune’s withering blast Has laid my leaf full low, O! O raging Fortune’s withering blast Has laid my leaf full low, O! My stem was fair, my bud was green, My blossom sweet did blow, O! The dew fell fresh, the sun rose mild, And made my […]

Robert Burns – Logan Braes Song Tune— Logan Water. O Logan, sweetly didst thou glide, That day I was my Willie’s bride, And years sin syne hae o’er us run, Like Logan to the simmer sun: But now thy flowery banks appear Like drumlie Winter, dark and drear, While my dear lad maun face his […]