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Description: | Verse 1: 'O laddie I maun lo'e thee, O lassie lo'e na me: O laddie I maun lo'e thee, O lassie lo'e na me, for the lassie wi' the yellow cottie has ta'en away my heart from me'
The 'Scots Musical Museum' is the most important of the numerous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century collections of Scottish song. When the engraver James Johnson started work on the second volume of his collection in 1787, he enlisted Robert Burns as contributor and editor. Burns enthusiastically collected songs from various sources, often expanding or revising them, whilst including much of his own work. The resulting combination of innovation and antiquarianism gives the work a feel of living tradition.
John Glen (1900), seems to enjoy rubbishing the opinions of other musical historians before him, such as Stenhouse and Tytler (1747-1805), who claim that this tune is ancient but have no evidence of its being published earlier. Glen states, 'If the air existed at the time of James I of Scotland, as he (Tytler) imagines, we scarcely think it would have remained unpublished so long, or that the discovery would have been reserved for him.' Glen seems to believe the whole song is contemporaneous with the 'Museum'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | National Library of Scotland | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1803-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Volume IV, song 310, page 320 - 'O Laddi | Go to resource |
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