From ‘The Sailor's Consolation.’
One night came on a hurricane,
The seas were mountains rolling,
When Barney Buntline turned his quid,
And said to Billy Bowling,
A stiff Nor'-Wester's blowing, Bill,
Hark, don't you hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em! how I pity's all
Unhappy folk ashore now.
Mr. Kidson says in reference to this: ‘I do not know that it was ever written to music, though I fancy more than one popular tune has been set to the words, which are by a person named Pitt.’
Auld Lang Syne (‘Holly Tree,’ D.C. 17, 28)
Words by Burns.
A version of the melody occurs at the end of the overture to Shield's Rosina, 1783, and is either his own composition or an imitation of some Scotch melody. As, however, such melody has not hitherto been discovered, no great importance can be attached to this theory. Rosina was performed in Edinburgh.
Some maintain that the tune is taken from a Scotch reel known as the ‘Miller's Wedding,’ found in Bremner's Reels (1757–1761).
Away With Melancholy (O.C.S. 58, O.M.F. ii. 6, P.P. 44, D.C. 8)
The melody is from Mozart's Magic Flute, ‘Das klinget so herrlich’—a chorus with glockenspiel accompaniment. The writer of the words is unknown.
The air was introduced into an arrangement of Shakespeare's Tempest, and set to the words ‘To moments so delighting!’ sung by Miss Stephens. Also found as a duet ‘composed by Sigr. Mozart, arranged by F.A. Hyde.’