with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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Sae put on your pearlins, Marion,
And kyrtle of the cramasie .:
And soon as my chin has nae hair on,
I shall come west, and see ye.*
LEWIS GORDON.f
This air is a proof how one of our Scots tunes
comes to he composed out of another, I have one
of the earliest copies of the song, and it has pre-
fixed.
Tune of Tarry Woo.
Of which tune, a different set has insensibly varied
into a different air.—To a Scots critic, the pathos:
of the line,
" Tho' his back be at the waV
' must be very striking.— It needs not a Jacobite
prejudice to be affected with this song. The sup-
* This is marked in the Tea Table Miscellany as an old song
with additions. Ed.
t " Lord Lewis Gordon, younger brother to the then Duke of
Gordon, commanded a detachment for the Chevalier, and ac-
quitted himself with great gallantry and judgment. He died in
1754."