AH! THE POOR SHEPHERD’S MOURNFUL FATE. - The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. / With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham - 1145 - Robert Burns; Allan Cunningham

I DREAM’D I LAY WHERE FLOWERS WERE SPRINGING.THE BANKS OF THE DEVON.

AH! THE POOR SHEPHERD’S MOURNFUL FATE.

Tune—“Gallashiels.”

The old title, “Sour Plums o’ Gallashiels,” probably was the beginning of a song to this air, which is now lost.

The tune of Gallashiels was composed about the beginning of the present century by the Laird of Gallashiel’s piper.