Robert Burns: A play

by John Drinkwater

Burns: Do you know ‘The Campbells are Coming,’ madam?

Mrs. Stewart: This?

[She plays the air.]

Burns: Aye—that. I’ve made some new verses for it—thus—

[He sings.]

Upon the Lomonds I lay, I lay,

Upon the Lomonds I lay, I lay,

I looked down to bonnie Lochleven

And saw three bonnie perches play.

The Campbells are comin’, Oho! Oho!