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

by Robert Burns; Allan Cunningham

WAUKIN O’ THE FAULD.

There are two stanzas still sung to this tune, which I take to be the original song whence Ramsay composed his beautiful song of that name in the Gentle Shepherd.—It begins

“O will ye speak at our town,
As ye come frae the fauld.”

I regret that, as in many of our old songs, the delicacy of this old fragment is not equal to its wit and humour.

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