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.
THE BANKS OF THE DEVON.
These verses were composed on a charming girl, a Miss Charlotte Hamilton, who is now married to James M’Kitrick Adair, Esq., physician. She is sister to my worthy friend Gavin Hamilton, of Mauchline, and was born on the banks of the Ayr, but was, at the time I wrote these lines, residing at Herveyston, in Clackmannanshire, on the romantic banks of the little river Devon. I first heard the air from a lady in Inverness, and got the notes taken down for this work.
MILL, MILL O.
The original, or at least a song evidently prior to Ramsay’s is still extant.—It runs thus,
Chorus.