The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6. / The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

by Unknown

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INDEX
TO THE
FIRST LINES OF THE SONGS.

• A bonnie rose bloom'd wild and fair, vol. iv., [112].
• Adieu—a long and last adieu, vol. iii., [207].
• Adieu, lovely summer, I see thee declining, vol. i., [273].
• Adieu, romantic banks of Clyde, vol. iii., [30].
• Adieu, ye streams that smoothly glide, vol. i., [42].
• Adieu, ye wither'd flow'rets, vol. iv., [207].
• Admiring nature's simple charms, vol. ii., [239].
• Ah! do not bid me wake the lute, vol. ii., [283].
• Adown the burnie's flowery bank, vol. ii., [227].
• Ae morn, last ouk, as I gaed out, vol. i., [118].
• Ae morn of May, when fields were gay, vol. iii., [31].
• Ah! faded is that lovely bloom, vol. ii., [276].
• Afar from the home where his youthful prime, vol. vi., [165].
• Afore the Lammas tide, vol. iv., [197].
• Afore the muircock begin to craw, vol. ii., [67].
• Again the laverock seeks the sky, vol. v., [82].
• Ages, ages have departed, vol. i., [258].
• A health to Caberfae, vol. i., [357].
• Alake for the lassie! she's no right at a', vol. ii., [317].
• A lassie cam' to our gate yestreen, vol. ii., [184].
• Alas! how true the boding voice, vol. v., [87].
• Allen-a-Dale has no faggot for burning, vol. i., [300].
• Ah! little did my mother think, vol. i., [234].
• A lively young lass had a wee pickle tow, vol. i., [142].
• All lovely and bright, 'mid the desert of time, vol. iv., [173].
• All night, by the pathway that crosses the muir, vol. iv., [141].
• Alone to the banks of the dark rolling Danube, vol. ii., [264].
• Along by Levern stream so clear, vol. ii., [201].
• Although the lays o' ither lands, vol. vi., [96].
• Amang the birks sae blithe an' gay, vol. ii., [227].
• Amang the breezy heights and howes, vol. vi., [49].
• Ah! Mary, sweetest maid, farewell, vol. ii., [211].
• And can thy bosom bear the thought, vol. iv., [100].
• And dost thou speak sincere, my love, vol. ii., [116].
• And hast thou sought thy heavenly home, vol. iii., [245].
• Ah no! I cannot say farewell, vol. iii., [79].
• Ah, Peggie, since thou 'rt gane away, vol. ii., [72].
• A pretty young maiden sat on the grass, vol. iii., [251].
• Argyle is my name, and you may think it strange, vol. ii., [216].
• As clear is Luther's wave, I ween, vol. iii., [224].
• As I sat by the grave, at the brink of its cave, vol. i., [326].
• As lockfasted in slumber's arms, vol. i., [330].
• As o'er the Highland hills I hied, vol. i., [37].
• A song, a song, brave hearts, a song, vol. v., [8].
• As sunshine to the flowers in May, vol. v., [99].
• At hame or afield, I 'm cheerless and lone, vol. iii., [124].
• Ah! the wound of my breast sinks my heart to the dust, vol. ii., [343].
• At waking so early, vol. i., [311].
• At Willie's weddin' on the green, vol. ii., [210].
• Auld Peter MacGowan cam' down the craft, vol. v., [10].
• Awake, thou first of creatures, indignant in their frown, vol. iii., [123].
• Away, away, like a child at play, vol. vi., [68].
• Away, away, my gallant bark, vol. vi., [84].
• Away on the breast of the ocean, vol. vi., [211].
• Away on the wings of the wind she flies, vol. iv., [160].
• Away to the Highlands, where Lomond is flowing, vol. v., [254].
• A weary lot is thine, fair maid, vol. i., [300].
• A wee bird cam' to our ha' door, vol. iii., [128].
• A wee bird sits upon a spray, vol. iv., [190].
• A wee bit laddie sits wi' a bowl upon his knees, vol. vi., [145].
• A wet sheet and a flowing sea, vol. iii., [15].
• A young gudewife is in my house, vol. i., [141].

• Bare was our burn brae, vol. v., [65].
• Beautiful moon, wilt thou tell me where, vol. vi., [44].
• Be eident, be eident, fleet time rushes on, vol. v., [209].
• Behave yoursel' before folk, vol. iii., [74].
• Believe me or doubt me, I dinna care whilk, vol. ii., [108].
• Ben Cruachan is king of the mountains, vol. vi., [115].
• Beneath a hill, 'mang birken bushes, vol. iv., [294].
• Bird of the wilderness, vol. i., [52].
• Blaw saftly, ye breezes, ye streams, smoothly murmur, vol. i., [243].
• Blest be the hour of night, vol. vi., [48].
• Blink over the burn, my sweet Betty, vol. ii., [171].
• Blink over the burn, sweet Betty, vol. iii., [140].
• Blithe be the mind of the ploughman, vol. v., [176].
• Blithe was the time when he fee'd wi' my father, O, vol. ii., [148].
• Blithe young Bess to Jean did say, vol. ii., [82].
• Blue are the hills above the Spey, vol. v., [212].
• Bonnie Bessie Lee had a face fu' o' smiles, vol. iv., [233].
• Bonnie Bonaly's wee fairy-led stream, vol. v., [207].
• Bonnie Charlie 's now awa, vol. i., [218].
• Bonnie Clouden, as ye wander, vol. ii., [230].
• Bonnie lassie, blithesome lassie, vol. ii., [188].
• Bonnie Mary Hay, I will lo'e thee yet, vol. vi., [33].
• Born where the glorious starlights trace, vol. iv., [150].
• Bring the rod, the line, the reel, vol. v., [221].
• Brither Jamie cam' west wi' a braw burn trout, vol. ii., [109].
• Built on Time's uneven sand, vol. vi., [198].
• By Logan's streams, that rin sae deep, vol. i., [110].
• By Niagara's flood, vol. vi., [81].
• By the lone Mankayana's margin gray, vol. iii., [107].
• By yon hoarse murmurin' stream, 'neath the moon's chilly beam, vol. i., [212].

• Caledonia! thou land of the mountain and rock, vol. ii., [53].
• Calm sleep the village dead, vol. v., [260].
• Cam' ye by Athol, lad wi' the philabeg, vol. ii., [51].
• Can my dearest Henry leave me, vol. iii., [41].
• Can ought be constant as the sun, vol. ii., [249].
• Can ye lo'e, my dear lassie, vol. v., [63].
• Ca' the yowes to the knowes, vol. iv., [89].
• Cauld blaws the wind frae north to south, vol. i., [119].
• Change! change! the mournful story, vol. v., [173].
• Charlie 's comin' o'er the sea, vol. vi., [160].
• Chaunt me no more thy roundelay, vol. ii., [174].
• Cheer, boys, cheer! no more of idle sorrow, vol. vi., [20].
• Clan Lachlan's tuneful mavis, I sing on the branches early, vol. iv., [282].
• Close by the marge of Leman's Lake, vol. vi., [177].
• Come all ye jolly shepherds, vol. ii., [55].
• Come awa', come awa', vol. iii., [109].
• Come awa', hie awa', vol. ii., [171].
• Come back, come back, thou youthful time, vol. vi., [17].
• Come gie us a sang, Montgomery cried, vol. i., [11].
• Come, maid, upon yon mountain brow, vol. iii., [19].
• Come, memory, paint, though far away, vol. vi., [52].
• Come o'er the stream, Charlie, vol. ii., [59].
• Come see my scarlet rose-bush, vol. vi., [37].
• Come sit down, my cronie, an' gie me your crack, vol. ii., [306].
• Come under my plaidie, the night's gaun to fa', vol. i., [89].
• Come when the dawn of the morning is breaking, vol. v., [15].
• Confide ye aye in Providence, for Providence is kind, vol. v., [202].
• Could we but look beyond our sphere, vol. iii., [199].
• Creep awa', my bairnie, creep afore ye gang, vol. v., [205].
• Culloden, on thy swarthy brow, vol. iii., [46].

• Dark lowers the night o'er the wide stormy main, vol. i., [179].
• Dear aunty, I've been lang your care, vol. ii., [95].
• Dear aunty, what think ye o' auld Johnny Graham, vol. v., [107].
• Dearest love believe me, vol. iii., [110].
• Dear to my heart as life's warm stream, vol. i., [44].
• Does grief appeal to you, ye leal, vol. ii., [341].
• Down by a crystal stream, vol. vi., [207].
• Down in the valley lone, vol. v., [181].
• Down whar the burnie rins whimplin' and cheery, vol. v., [25].
• Do you know what the birds are singing? vol. vi., [134].

• Each whirl of the wheel, vol. v., [61].
• Easy is my pillow press'd, vol. ii., [349].
• Eliza fair, the mirth of May, vol. v., [138].
• Eliza was a bonnie lass, and, oh! she lo'ed me weel, vol. iv., [187].
• Ere eild wi' his blatters had warsled me doun, vol. ii., [246].
• Ere foreign fashions crossed the Tweed, vol. iii., [189].
• Exiled far from scenes of pleasure, vol. ii., [165].
• Eye of the brain and heart, vol. v., [133].

• Fain wad I, fain wad I hae the bloody wars to cease, vol. i., [269].
• Fair are the fleecy flocks that feed, vol. ii., [128].
• Fair as a star of light, vol. vi., [179].
• Fair Ellen, here again I stand, vol. v., [141].
• Fair modest flower of matchless worth, vol. i., [157].
• Fair Scotland, dear as life to me, vol. v., [137].
• Fare-thee-weel, for I must leave thee, vol. iii., [263].
• Fare-thee-weel, my bonnie lassie, vol. iii., [225].
• Fareweel, O! fareweel, vol. i., [238].
• Fareweel to ilk hill whar the red heather grows, vol. v., [91].
• Fareweel, ye fields and meadows green, vol. i., [121].
• Farewell, and though my steps depart, vol. iii., [116].
• Farewell, our father's land, vol. iii., [249].
• Farewell ye braes of broad Braemar, vol. vi., [117].
• Farewell, ye streams sae dear to me, vol. ii., [232].
• Far lone amang the Highland hills, vol. ii., [139].
• Far over yon hills of the heather sae green, vol. ii., [50].
• Fierce as its sunlight, the East may be proud, vol. vi., [28].
• Fife, an' a' the land about it, vol. ii., [112].
• Float forth, thou flag of the free, vol. vi., [221].
• Flowers of summer sweetly springing, vol. v., [251].
• Flow saftly thou stream through the wild spangled valley, vol. iii., [243].
• For mony lang year I hae heard frae my granny, vol. ii., [250].
• For success a prayer with a farewell bear, vol. iii., [284].
• For twenty years and more, vol. v., [80].
• From beauty's soft lips, like the balm of its roses, vol. iv., [97].
• From the climes of the sun all war-worn and weary, vol. ii., [220].
• From the deep and troubled waters, vol. vi., [25].
• From the village of Leslie with a heart full of glee, vol. i., [182].
• Fy, let us a' to the wedding, vol. i., [136].

• Gae bring my guid auld harp ance mair, vol. iv., [58].
• Gane were but the winter cauld, vol. iii., [12].
• Gang wi' me to yonder howe, bonnie Peggie, O! vol. iv., [133].
• Give me the hour when bells are rung, vol. vi., [149].
• Give the swains of Italia, vol. vi., [223].
• Glad tidings for the Highlands, vol. ii., [335].
• Gloomy winter's now awa', vol. ii., [145].
• Good morrow, good morrow, warm, rosy, and bright, vol. v., [16].
• Good night, and joy be wi' ye a', vol. ii., [214].
• Good night, the silver stars are clear, vol. v., [246].
• Go to Berwick, Johnnie, vol. i., [121].
• Go to him then if thou canst go, vol. ii., [300].
• Grim winter was howlin' owre muir and owre mountain, vol. iii., [55].
• Guid night and joy be wi' ye a', vol. iv., [114].