TIBBIE DUNBAR.
This tune is said to be the composition of John M’Gill, fiddler, in Girvan. He called it after his own name.
WHEN I UPON THY BOSOM LEAN.
This song was the work of a very worthy facetious old fellow, John Lapraik, late of Dalfram, near Muirkirk; which little property he was obliged to sell in consequence of some connexion as security for some persons concerned in that villanous bubble the ayr bank. He has often told me that he composed this song one day when his wife had been fretting o’er their misfortunes.
MY HARRY WAS A GALLANT GAY.
Tune—“Highlander’s Lament.”
The oldest title I ever heard to this air, was, “The Highland Watch’s Farewell to Ireland.” The chorus I picked up from an old woman in Dumblane; the rest of the song is mine.