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FAMOUS SONGS
" Robin Adair" was published just about the time of Lady Caroline's marriage. In later years Braham adapted and sang it. The air of " Eileen Aroon" has been claimed by the Welsh as well as the Scottish, John Parry pretending that it dates from 1755 or 1760. In 1770 was issued a work called " A Collection of Favour-ite Scots tunes, by the late Mr. Chas. McLean," in which "Eileen a Roon" appeared according to Mr. Alfred Moffat and in other collections of earlier date, but as already stated Hempson in-troduced it into Scotland when a youth, about 1710. It was popular with the people every-where in England and Scotland, as well as in its native country Ireland, towards the close of the seventeenth century. Though Burns failed to fit words to the beautiful melody of " Robin Adair," others succeeded, notably Gerald Grif-fin, who called his lines after the original Irish Ebhhn a Ruin. In Walker's " Irish Bards" (1786), the tune will be found in all its primi-tive purity. As far as I have been able to dis-cover, the incidents related have not been turned to account on the stage as a play, though " Eileen Aroon" has formed the basis of many a story. |
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