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AULD ROB MORRIS

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AULD ROB MORRIS - staff notation
X: 5
T: AULD ROB MORRIS
O: 1811
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1811, p.225-226
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87686121
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Bar 10 has 7 8th notes; fixed to match the rhythm of other bars by making the g an 8th note.
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: G
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{GA}B2 | (G3 E) D2 | E2 G2 g2{e} | d3 B (AG) |
w: There's auld* Rob Mor-ris that wons in yon*
{G}A4 B A | (GA) (GE) D2 | E2 {F}G2 (ge) |
w: glen, He's the king* o'* gude fel-lows and*
d3 B (AG) | G4 ][ B2 | A2 A2 (Bd) |
w: wale o' auld* men; He's gowd in his*
e2 e2 g a | (ba) (ge) (dB) | {B}A4 (BA) |
w: cof-fers he has ou-*sen* and* kine, And*
(GA) (GE) D2 | E2 G2 (g>f) | d3 B (AG) | G6 |]
w: ae* bon-*ny las-sie, his* dar-ling and* mine.
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W:2.She's fresh as the morning, the fairest in May;
W:  She's sweet as the ev'ning amang the new hay;
W:  As blythe and as artless as the lambs on the lea,
W:  And dear to my heart as the light to my ee.
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W:
W:3.But oh! she's an heiress, auld Robin's a laird,
W:  And my daddie has nought but a cot-house and yard;
W:  A wooer like me maunna hope to come speed,
W:  The wounds I must hide that will soon be my dead.
W:
W:4.The day comes to me, but delight brings me nane;
W:  The night comes to me, but my rest it is gane:
W:  I wander my lane like a night-troubled ghaist,
W:  And I sigh as my heart it wad burst in my breasf.
W:
W:5.O had she but been of a lower degree,
W:  I then might hae hop'd she wad smil'd upon me!
W:  O, how past describing had then been my bliss,
W:  As now my distraction no words can express!
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