v. 1. Songs. Vol[ume] first. An thou wert my ain thing ; Ah sure a pair was never seen ; Auld lang syne ; Allan water ; As down on Banna's banks I stray'ed ; Bess the gawkie ; Banks of the Tweed ; Beds of sweet roses ; Bonny Scotman ; Blythe Jockey ; Blythe Jockey young and gay ; Bonny Bessy ; Blathrie o't ; Blink o'er the burn, sweet Betty ; Bonny Jean ; Blythsome bridal ; Bonny Christy ; Busk ye busk ye ; Bonny brucket lassie ; Broom of Cowdenknows ; Birks of Invermay ; Banks of Forth ; Bonny grey-eyed morn ; Bush aboon Traquair ; Braes of Ballenden ; Bide ye yet ; Bonny Dundee ; Come let's hae mair wine ; Collier's bonny lassie ; Corn riggs ; Dear Roger, if your Jenny geck ; Down the burn Davie ; Ettrick banks ; From Roslin Castle's echoing walls ; Flowers of Edinburgh ; Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae ; Fairest of the fair ; Flowers of the forest ; Gilderoy ; Green grow the rashes ; Go to the ewe bughts Marion ; Highland queen ; Highland king ; Happy marriage ; Highland laddie ; He stole my tender heart away ; Had I a heart for falsehood fram'd ; Here awa there awa ; Her absence will not alter me ; Jamie Gay ; Johnny's gray breeks ; Jenny's heart was frank and free ; I with my love were in a mire ; I married with a scolding wife ; Jenny Nettles ; Jockey said to Jenny ; John Hay's bonnie lassie ; I'll never leave thee ; John and Mary ; Kate of Aberdeen ; Lord Gregory ; Lass of Livingston ; Last time I came o'er the moor ; Lass of Patie's mill ; Lawland maids ; Leander on the bay ; Lucky Nancy ; Logan water ; Loch Eroch side ; Lewis Gordon ; Low down in the broom ; Lochaber ; My dear Jockey ; Mary's dream ; My ain kind dearie ; Mary Scot ; My dearie if thou die ; My Nanny ; My apron dearie ; Mucking o' Geordie's byre ; Nancy's to the greenwood gane ; O lovely maid how dear's thy power ; O'er the moor to Maggy ; O'er the hills and far away ; Oscar's ghost ; O saw ye my father ; Oh ono chrio ; Peggy I must love thee ; Pinky house ; Roslin Castle ; Saw ye Johnnie cummin', quo' she ; Saw ye na my Peggy ; Sae merry as we twa hae been ; She rose and let me in ; Sweet Annie frae the sea beach came ; Turnimspike man ; To fly like bird from grove to grove ; Twine weel the plaiden ; Tweed side ; The maid that tends the goats ; There's nae luck about the house ; Tarry woo ; The maid in bedlam ; There's my thumb I'll ne'er beguile you ; Woo'd and married ; Water parted from the sea ; Within a mile of Edinburgh Town ; When absent from the nymph I love ; When summer comes the swains on Tweed ; The wawking of the fauld ; Young Peggy blooms our bonniest lass

Volume second. A rose bud by my early walk ; An I'll kiss ye yet ; A' the lads o' Thornie bank ; All lovely on the sultry beach ; Allan by his griefs excited ; A cock laird fu' cadgie ; Ah, the poor shepherd's mournful fate ; As Philermon and Phillis together did walk ; As walking forth to view the plain ; Amidst a rosy bank of flowers ; At Polwarth on the green ; Auld Rob Morris that wins in yon glen ; Balow my boy, lie still and sleep ; Blythe, blythe and merry was she ; Braw, braw lads o' Galla water; Bonny lassie will ye go ; Birks of Abergeldie ; By a murmuring stream a fair shepherdess lay ; Clarinda, mistress of my soul ; Cauld blows the wind frae east to west ; Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er ; Dumbarton drums beat bonnie ; Farewell ye dungeons dark and strong ; For lake of gold she's left me ; Go on sweet bird and soothe my care ; Grahainius notabilis, coegerat montanos ; Gie me a lass wi' a lump o' land ; He who presum'd to guide the fun ; Her daddie forbad, her minnie forbad ; Hey the dusty miller ; How pleasant the banks of the clear winding Devon ; How long and dreary is the night ; Here is to the king, sir ; I am my mammy's ae bairn ; It was in an evening sae saft and sae clear ; In the hall I lay in night ; It is night, I am alone ; In April when primroses paint the sweet plain ; I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing ; I who am sore oppress'd with love ; In coming by the brig o' Dye ; Jockey he came here to woo ; I had a horse and I had nae mair ; Look where my dear Hamilla smiles ; Loud blaw the frosty breezes ; Landlady count the lawin ; My heart was ance as blythe and free ; Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn ; My love has forsaken me ; My lov'd Celestia is so fair; My mither's ay glowran o'er me ; Musing on the roaring ocean ; Nae gentle dames tho' ne'er so fair ; Now wat ye what I met yestreen ; No repose can I discover; O whistle an I'll come to you my lad ; On a rock by seas surrounded ; O merry may the maid be ; One night I dream'd I lay most easy ; O Molly, Molly, my dear honey ; O mither dear I gin to fear ; O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray ; O gae to the kye wi' me Johnny ; O Bell thy looks have pierc'd my heart ; One night as young Colin lay musing in bed ; O Sandy why leaves thou thy Nelly to mourn ; O that I were where Helen lies ; O waly, waly up yon bank ; O'er bogie wi' my love ; O what had I ado for to marry ; Quite over the mountains ; Raving winds around her blowing ; Rattlin roarin Willie ; Stay my charmer, can you leave me ; Sweet sir for your courtesie ; Speak on, speak thus and still my grief ; Since robb'd of all that charm'd my view ; She took me in and set me down ; Since all thy vows false maid ; Talk not of love, it gives me pain; Tho' cruel fate should bid us part ; The chevalier being void of fear ; The love that I hae chosen ; There was ance a May ; The yellow hair'd laddie sat on yon burn brae ; The widow can bake and the widow can brew ; Thickest night, surround my dwelling ; The carl he came o'er the craft ; There was a lass they ca'd her Meg ; The shepherd Adonis ; There's cauld kail in Aberdeen ; The ploughman he's a bonnie lad ; To me what are riches encumber'd with care ; The gypsies came to our gude lord's yett ; The blude red rose at Yule may blaw ; Tibbie I hae seen the day ; The winter it is past and the summer's come at last ; Up and warn a' Willie ; Where braving angry winter's storms ; When Guilford good our pilot stood ; When first my dear laddie gaed to the green hill ; With broken words and downcast eyes ; What will I go gin my hoggie die ; What words dear Nancy will prevail ; Why hangs that cloud upon thy brow ; Willie was a wanton wag ; Where winding forth adorns the vale ; Weary fa' you Duncan Gray ; Well, I agree, ye'r sure o' me ; Where waving pines salute the skies ; Ye gods was Strephon's picture blest ; Ye highlands and ye lawlands ; Ye rivers so limpid and clear.

Volume third. Ah, why thus abandon'd to mourning and woe ; An O my Eppie ; And ye shall walk in silk attire ; As over Gladsmuir's blood stain'd field ; As late by a sodger I chanced to pass ; As on an eminence I stood a musing ; As o'er the highland hills I hied ; Awa whigs awa ; Beneath a green shade I fand a fair maid ; By the stream so cool and clear ; By the delicious warmness of thy mouth ; Ca' the ewes to the knowes ; Carl an' the king come ; Cease, cease my dear friend to explore ; Come gies a sang, Montgomery cried ; Dear Myra the captive ribband's mine ; Deil take the war that hurried Willie frae me ; Fate gave the word, the arrow sped ; First when Maggy was my care ; Gill Morice was an earle's son ; Gin living worth could win my heart ; Go fetch to me a pint o' wine ; Hark! yonder eagle lonely wails ; Hark the loud tempest shakes earth to its center ; Hey the bonny ; Hid from himself now by the dawn ; I hae laid a herring in saut ; I loe nae a laddie but ane ; I winna marry ony man but Sandy o'er the lea ; I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen ; In winter when the rain rain'd cauld ; In May when the daisies appear on the green ; In the garb of old Gaul with the fire of old Rome ; It fell about the Martinmass time ; It was in and about the Martinmass time ; Jamie come try me ; John Anderson my jo, John ; Lang hae we parted been ; Let ithers brag wee' o' their gear ; My Sandy gied to me a ring ; My Harry was a gallant gay ; My wife's a wanton wee thing ; My love she's but a lassie yet ; My heart's in the highlands my heart is not here ; My love was born in Aberdeen ; My heart is a breaking, dear Tittie ; O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar ; O this is no my ain house ; O mount and go ; O dear Peggy love's beguiling ; O dear minny, what shall I do ; O were I on Parnassus Hill ; O merry hae I been teethin a heckle ; O wha my babie clouts will buy ; O cam ye here the fight to shun ; O Willie brew'd a peck o' maut ; O were I able to rehearse ; Of a' the airts the wind can blaw ; On a bank of flowers in a summer day ; Peggy now the king's come ; Se do mholla, mholla, mholla ; Simmer's a pleasant time ; Sir John Cope trode the north right far ; Stately stept he east the wa' ; Sun gallop down the westlin skies ; Sweet nursling of the tears of morning ; The smiling plains profusely gay ; The morn was fair saft was the air ; The taylor fell thro' the bed ; The came a young man to my daddy's door ; The day returns my bosom burns ; The meal was dear short syne ; The lazy mist hands from the brow of the hill ; The springtime returns and clothes the green plains ; There's a youth in this city it were a pity ; There was a jolly beggar ; They say that Jockey'll speed weel o't ; The Catrine woods were yellow seen ; The gloomy night is gath'ring fast ; There liv'd a wife in our gate end ; The Campbells are coming ; The pawky old carl came over the lea ; Tho' women's' minds like winter winds ; The ling'ring star, with less'ning ray ; Tune your fiddles tune them sweetly ; 'Twas at the hour of dark midnight ; 'Twas past ane o'clock in a cold frosty morning ; Twa bonnie lads were Sandy and Jockey ; Ullin, Carril and Ryno ; Waes me that e'er I made your bed ; Were I assur'd you'd constant prove ; Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad ; Why I upon thy bosom lean ; When I have a sixpence under my thumb ; When first I came to be a man ; When Frennet castle's ivy'd wall ; Where are ye gaun my bonnie lass ; When west winds did blow with a soft, gentle breeze ; When rosy morn comes in wi' flowers ; When the sheep are in the fauld and the ky at hame ; When merry hearts were gay ; Ye gallants bright I red you right ; Young Philander woo'd me lang ; Young Jockey was the blythest lad

Volume fourth. A southland Jenny that was right bonnie ; As I came down by yon castle wa' ; All hail to thee thou bawmy bud ; Altho' I be but a country lass ; Ae fond kiss and then we sever ; As I was a wandering ae midsummer e'ening ; An O for ane and twenty Tam ; As I was a walking all alone ; A nobleman liv'd in a village of late ; Ay waking oh waking ; As Patie cam up frae the glen ; As I went out, ae May morning ; By yon castle wa' at the close of the day ; Bonnie wee thing canie wee thing ; Comin' thro' the craiges o' Kyle ; Come here's to the nymph I love ; Frae the friends and land I love ; Forbear gentle youth to pursue me in vain ; Farewell to a' our Scottish fame ; Farewell thou fair day thou green earth & ye skies ; Flow gently sweet Afton ; Gone is the day and mirk the night ; Hey Donald how Donald ; Hey how my Johnie lad ; Harken and I will tell you how ; I've been courting at a lass ; I sing of a whistle a whistle of worth ; I do confess thou art sae fair ; I hae been at Crookieden ; It is na, Jean, thy bonnie face ; I hae a wife o' my ain ; In summer when the hay was maun ; Jockey fou and Jenny fain ; It was in sweet Senegal ; I love my jovial sailor ; Keen blaws the wind o'er Donochthead ; Late in an evening forth I went ; My soger laddie is over the sea ; My hero! my hero, my beauteous, my brave ; Now westlin winds and slaughterin guns ; Our lords are to the mountains gane ; O mighty nature's handy work ; O John come kiss me now ; O laddie I maun lo'e thee ; O meikle thinks my love o' my beauty ; O how can I be blythe and glad ; O as I was kist yestreen ; O where wad bonnie Annie ly ; o Galloway Tam cam here to woo ; O where hae ye been Lord Ronald my son ; O saw ye my dearie my Eppie McNab ; O show shall I unskilfu' try ; O when she came ben she bobbed ; O fare ye weel my auld wife ; O Logie o Buchan o Logie the laird ; O Kenmures on and awa Willie ; O Leeze me on my spinning wheel ; O luve will venture ; O Lady Mary Ann looks o'er the castle wa ; O can ye labor lea young man ; O all ye luves and groves lament ; O Love thou delights in man's ruin ; Roy's wife of Aldivalloch ; Sweet closes the evening on Craigieburn Wood ; She sat down before a thorn ; Sensibility how charming ; Some spicks of lords, some spicks of lairds ; Sleepy body drowsy body ; She's fair and fause that cause my smart ; The country swain that haunts the plain ; The art gane awa, thou art gane awa ; The tears I shed must ever fall ; The tither morn when I forlorn ; There was a battle in the north ; The weary pund, the weary pund ; The shepherd's wife cries o'er the knowe ; There came a ghost to Margaret's door ; The noble Maxwels and their powers ; There liv'd a man in yonder glen ; Turn again thou fair Eliza ; There lived a carl in Kellyburn braes ; The smiling spring comes in rejoicing ; The ducks dung o'er my daddy ; The de'il cam fiddlen thro' the town ; Up wi' the carls of Dysart ; When first my brave Johnie lad ; What can a young lassie ; When I was a young lad my fortune was bad ; Wha's that at my bower door ; Where live ye my bonnie lass ; Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed ; When dear Evanthe we were young ; Where cart rins rowin to the sea ; While hopeless and almost reduced to despair ; Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide ; Ye Jacobites by name give an ear ; Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon ; Ye watchful guardians of the fair.

Volume fifth. As I stood by yon roofless tower ; Auld Rob the laird o' muckle land ; A friend o' mine came here yestreen ; As Sylvia in a forest lay ; Aften hae I play'd at the cards and dice ; About one bank with balmy bewis ; As I came o'er the Cairny mount ; And a' that e'er my Jenny had ; Ance mair I hail thee thou gloomy December ; Blest are the mortals above all ; Bannocks o' bear meal ; But lately seen in gladsome green ; Comin' thro' the rye, poor body ; Could aught of song declare my pain ; Fu' fain wad I be Jamie's lass ; For weel he kend the way ; Gin a body meet a body ; Gat ye me ; Good morrow fair mistress ; Here's a health to them that's awa ; Had I the wyte ; How often my heart has by love been o'erthrown ; Hee balou my sweet wee Donald ; Here's to thy health my bonnie lass ; In Scotland there lived a humble beggar ; I coft a stane o' haslock woo ; It's up wi' the Souters of' Selkirk ; In lovely August last ; I'll ay ca' in by yon town ; It's whisper'd in parlour ; I chanc'd to meet an airy blade ; It was a' for our rightfu' king ; Louis what reck I by thee ; My heart is fair, I dare na tell ; My dear and only love I pray ; My father has forty good shillings ; My bonny Lizae Baillie ; Now nature hangs her mantle green ; O my love's like a red, red rose ; O an ye ware dead gudeman ; O I forbid you, maidens a' ; Out over the Forth, I look to the north ; Our young lady's a hunting gane ; O weel may the boatie row ; O can ye sew cushions ; O waly, waly, up yon bank ; O sad and heavy should I part ; Our goodman came hame at e'en ; O keep ye weel frae Sir John Malcolm ; O wat ye wha's in yon town ; O May thy morn was ne'er sae sweet ; O lovely Polly Stewart ; Our auld king Coul was a jolly auld soul ; O for my ain king, quo gude Wallace ; O dear what can the matter be ; Oh! I am come to the low countrie ; Put the gown upon the bishop ; Powers celestial, whose protection ; Robin is my only joe ; Sweet nymph of my devotion; Should auld acquaintance be forgot ; Saw ye my wee thing ; Sae flaxen were her ringlets ; Slow spreads the gloom my soul desires ; The lovely lass of Inverness ; The robin came to the wren's nest ; The auld man he came over the lea ; The Duke of Gordon has three daughters ; 'Twas on a Monday morning ; The maltman comes on Monanday ; The auld wife beyond the fire ; There was an auld wife had a wee pickle tow ; Tibbie Fowler o' the glen ; There's three true fellows ; There's fouth of braw Jockies and Jennys ; The bonniest lad that e'er I saw ; There was a silly shepherd's swain ; The maid's gane to the mill by night ; The king sits in Dumferline toune ; The wren soho lyes in care's bed ; The auld man's mare's dead ; There was a wee bit wiffikie ; There grows a bonnie brier bush ; Wantonness forever mair ; We'll hide the cooper behind the door ; Wha is that at my chamber door ; Will ye go to the highlands Leezie Lindsay ; When Januar wind was blawing ; Wap and row ; Will ye go and marry Katie ; Wherefore sighing art thou Phillis ; What think ye o' the scornfu' quine ; Wilt thou be my dearie ; Wae is my heart, and the tear's in my e'e ; We'll put the sheep head in the pat ; Young Jamie pride of a' the plain

[Volume sixth]. As I went o'er the highland hills ; As walking forth to view the plain ; At day a braw wooer ; Ah Mary sweetest maid farewell ; Anna thy charms my bosom fire ; A cogie of ale and a pickle ate meal ; As I was walking by yon river side ; Argyll is my name ; An' I'll awa to bonny Tweedside ; An I lay on my bed on a night ; A soldier for gallant achievements renounc'd ; Adieu! a heart warm, fond adieu ; Behind yon hills where rivlets row ; Bright moon aboon yon mountain ; Come under my plaidy ; Come follow, follow ; Chanticleer, wi' noisy whistle ; Cauld is the e'enin blast ; Does haughty Gaul invasion threat ; Frae Dunibier as I cam through ; Farewell ye fields an' meadows green ; Go to Berwick Johnny ; Gudeen to you kimmer ; Gently blaw ye eastern breezes ; Go plaintive sound ; Have ye any posts or pans ; Hey! my kitten my kitten ; How sweet is the scene at the dawning o' morning ; How sweet this lone vale ; Hard is the fate of him who loves ; In Brechin did a wabster dwell ; I am a young bachelor winsome ; In yon garden fine an' gay ; Jockey's ta'en the parting kiss ; I care nae for your een sae blue ; Lord Thomas and fair Annet ; Little wat ye wha's coming ; Liv'd ance two lovers in yon dale ; My Peggy's face, my Peggy's form ; My daddy left me gear enough ; My lady's gown there's gairs upon't ; My Jeany and I have toil'd ; Now bank and brae are claith'd in green ; No churchman am I for to rail and to write ; O steer her up and had her gaun ; O cherub content O Bothwell bank thou bloomest fair ; O ay my wife she dang me ; O tell me my bonny young lassie ; O Mary turn awa that bonny face ; O gude ale comes ; O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell ; O once I lov'd a bonnie lass ; O dinna think bonnie lassie ; O gin I were fairly shot o' her ; O ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten ; O leave novels, ye Mauchlin belles ; O lay thy loof in mine lass ; O heard ye of a silly harper ; O turn away those cruel eyes ; O Mary ye's be clad in silk ; O that I had ne'er been married ; O gin my love were yon red rose ; O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet ; Red gleams the sun on yon hill tap ; Row saftly thou stream ; Robin shure in hairst ; Return hameward my heart again ; Scenes of woe and scenes of pleasure ; Stern winter has left us ; Sweetest May let love inspire thee ; Sure my Jean is beauty's blossom ; Saw ye the thane o' meikle pride ; Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled ; Tho' for seven years and mair ; 'Twas summer and softly the breezes ; 'Twas at the shining midday hour ; The queen o' the Lothians cam cruisin to Fife ; The cheek is o' the roses hue ; 'Twas at the silent solemn hour ; The sun in the west ; There was a wife wonn'd in Cockpen ; 'Tis nae very land sinsyne ; The nymphs and shepherds are met on the green ; There was a noble lady ; The rain rin's down thro' Mirry land toune ; There was a bonnie lass ; There's news lasses news ; Tell me Jessy tell me ; The night is my departing night ; Whar hae ye been a' day, my boy Tammy ; When I gaed to the mill my lane ; Whar' Esk its silver current leads ; Wee Willie Gray ; When the days they are lang ; Willy's rare and Willy's fair ; Wha wadna be in love wi' bonny Maggy Lauder ; When I think on my lad ; You ask me charming fair ; Ye muses nine, o lend your aid ; You sing of our goodman frae hame .

v. 2. Notes and illustrations.