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FAMOUS SONGS
rector of the Royalty Theatre, Goodman's Fields. He died in London, October 14th, 1804.
It is only just to Bishop Percy to say that " O Nanny wilt thou go with me ?" was origi-nally written entirely in English without any Scottish expressions or words at all. Perhaps after all I ought to have given it in the English section.
It is not, I think, generally known that Dr. Henry Duncan, the founder of savings banks in Scotland, wrote the " Roof of Straw," which has often been attributed to that prolific pen-man, Mr. Anon., but such is the case. Com-mencing life as a banker's clerk, he soon found the duties uncongenial, and resolved to enter the Church of Scotland. At Edinburgh he was the associate of Brougham, Horner, and Henry Petty (afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne); and by the Earl of Mansfield was made the minister of Rothwell in Dumfriesshire, where his first savings bank was established in 1810. A few years later he established the " Dumfries and Galloway Courier," one of the most successful provincial papers, at one time, in the kingdom.
There are two songs bearing the title of " Bonnie Dundee," and the more modern one, written by Sir Walter Scott, is the best known.
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