Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories
300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.
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JEANIE MORRISON'. |
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the same age with himself, a pretty girl, and of good capacity. Her hair was of a lightish brown, approaching to fair ; her eyes were dark, and had a sweet and gentle expression; her temper was mild, and her manners unassuming. Her dress was also neat and tidy. In winter she wore a pale blue pelisse, then the fashionable color, and a light-colored beaver, with a feather. She made a great impression on young Motherwell, and that it was permanent, his beautiful ballad shows. At the end of the season, she returned to her parents, at Alloa, with whom she resided until the time of her marriage. She is now a widow, with a family of three children." Jeanie Morrison's married name was Murdoch. Her husband was a merchant in Glasgow. She is described in after life as very elegant in personal appearance, and always characterized by the gentle manners which won the sensitive-hearted boy poet, of whose romantic devotion she was wholly unconscious. , William E. Dempster set the poem to music, and used to render it finely at his concerts. |
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