# The Merry Muses of Caledonia

THE MERRY MUSES
OF
CALEDONIA;
(ORIGINAL EDITION)
A COLLECTION OF
FAVOURITE SCOTS SONGS
ANCIENT AND MODERN;
SELECTED FOR USE OF THE
CROCHALLAN FENCIBLES.
Say, Puritan, can it be wrong,
To dress plain truth in witty song?
What honest Nature says, we should do;
What every lady does... or would do.
A VINDICATION
OF ROBERT BURNS
IN CONNECTION WITH THE ABOVE PUBLICATION AND THE SPURIOUS EDITIONS WHICH SUCCEEDED IT.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE BURNS FEDERATION.
FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.NOT FOR SALE.
1911.
CONTENTS.
(AS IN THE ORIGINAL.)
| Introductory and Corrective | page v. |
| The Fornicator | 33 |
| Beware of the Ripples | 35 |
| The Lass o' Liviston | 36 |
| She's Hoy'd Me Out o' Lauderdale | 37 |
| Anna | 38 |
| Errock Brae | 40 |
| My Auntie Jean | 41 |
| Our Gudewife's sae Modest | 41 |
| Wad Ye Do That? | 42 |
| A' That and A' That | 43 |
| Muirland Meg | 44 |
| Ye hae Lien Wrang, Lassie | 45 |
| The Patriarch | 46 |
| Can ye no let me be? | 48 |
| The Case of Conscience | 49 |
| The Trogger | 50 |
| The Reel o' Stumpie | 51 |
| Godly Girzie | 51 |
| Green Grow the Rashes | 52 |
| The Jolly Gauger | 54 |
| Nine Inch will Please a Lady | 55 |
| Had I the Wyte she Bade Me | 56 |
| Ellibanks | 57 |
| Coming o'er the Hills o' Coupar | 59 |
| Brose and Butter | 60 |
| Comin' Thro' the Rye | 61 |
| The Bower of Bliss | 62 |
| As I came o'er the Cairney Mount | 64 |
| Supper is not Ready | 65 |
| Yon, Yon, Yon, Lassie | 66 |
| The Yellow, Yellow Yorlin' | 67 |
| The Summer Morn | 68 |
| She Grippet at the Girtest o't | 69 |
| Wha'll M—w Me Now ? | 70 |
| John Anderson my Jo | 71 |
| A Hole to Hide it in | 73 |
| Duncan Macleerie | 74 |
| Duncan Davison | 75 |
| O Saw ye my Maggy? | 76 |
| They Took Me to the Holy Band | 77 |
| The Ploughman | 78 |
| How Can I Keep my Maidenhead | 80 |
| Dainty Davie | 81 |
| The Moudiwark | 82 |
| Andrew and his Cutty Gun | 83 |
| The Mill, Mill, O | 84 |
| O Gat ye me wi' Naething | 85 |
| Can ye Labour Lea, Young Man? | 86 |
| Our Jock's Brack Yestreen | 87 |
| She Rose and Loot me in | 88 |
| Gie the Lass her Fairing | 89 |
| Poor Bodies do Naething but Mow | 90 |
| The Cooper o' Cuddy | 93 |
| There Cam' a Cadger | 94 |
| Ken ye na our Lass Bess | 94 |
| Wha the Deil can Hinder the Wind tae Blaw? | 95 |
| We're a' Gaun Southie O | 96 |
| Jockey was a Bonny Lad | 97 |
| My Ain Kind Deary | 98 |
| Here's his Health in Water | 99 |
| Act Sederunt of the Court of Session | 100 |
| Blyth Will and Bessie's Wedding | 101 |
| As I Looked o'er yon Castle Wa' | 103 |
| Logan Water | 104 |
| The Cooper o' Dundee | 105 |
| Whistle o'er the Lave o't | 105 |
| The Ranting Dog the Daddy o't | 106 |
| Jenny Macraw | 107 |
| Nae Hair On't | 107 |
| The Sodger Laddie | 108 |
| O Gin I had her | 109 |
| The Lassie Gath'ring Nits | 110 |
| The Linking Laddie | 110 |
| Tail Todle | 111 |
| Duncan Gray | 112 |
| Johnie Scott | 113 |
| I am a Bard | 114 |
| For a' that an' a' that | 115 |
| My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing | 117 |
| He Till't and She Till't | 117 |
| Madgie cam to my Bedstock | 118 |
| Tweedmouth Town | 119 |
| Wha is that at my Bower Door | 120 |
| Come Cow Me Minnie | 121 |
| The Court of Equity | 125 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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