Pipe! pipe! pipers and naughty brats;
Here end my verse, my muse she is rather hoarse,
Quid! quid! what do you think of it?
Excellent metre! I know you all cry of course.
From Wiseheart’s New Comic Songster,
Dublin (about 1832, when smoking was
first becoming prevalent).
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“Oh, Where, and oh Where.”
(Written by Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, “On the Marquis of Huntly’s departure for the Continent with his Regiment in 1799.”)
Oh where, tell me where, is your Highland Laddie gone?
He’s gone with streaming banners, where noble deeds are done,