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FAMOUS SONGS
" Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech*
His breath's like caller air; His very foot has music in't,
When he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again ?
And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thocht,—
In troth I'm like to greet."
A wonderful, a haunting song ; to make a man hold his head higher had he written it. The tune is called "Up and Waur at them a1, Willie/' A companion song of considerable virtue is "The Boatie Rows," by John Ewen, who did not practise what he sang. He died 1821.
Mr. Peter Buchan states that " Logie o* Buchan" was written by George Halket, a schoolmaster at Rathen, in Aberdeenshire, who died in 1756. Halket was a Jacobite, and wrote some " Forty-Five" squibs which so offended the Duke of Cumberland that he offered a hundred pounds for the author's head. But it did not come off.
Opinions have long been divided as to whether the old air "Lochaber no more" is Irish or Scottish, but from internal evidence of musical form it seems tolerably evident that the original tune is to be found in " Limerick's Lamenta-tion," the tradition of which associates its plain-109 |
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