The Merry Muses of Caledonia

by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

For other versions of this work, see Wha is that at my Bower Door?.

THE MERRY MUSES

OF

CALEDONIA;

(ORIGINAL EDITION)

A COLLECTION OF

FAVOURITE SCOTS SONGS

ANCIENT AND MODERN;

SELECTED FOR USE OF THE

CROCHALLAN FENCIBLES.

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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.

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A VINDICATION

OF ROBERT BURNS

IN CONNECTION WITH THE ABOVE PUBLICATION
AND
THE SPURIOUS EDITIONS WHICH SUCCEEDED IT.

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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
BURNS FEDERATION.

FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.NOT FOR SALE.

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1911.

CONTENTS.

(AS IN THE ORIGINAL.)

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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