with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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TIBBIE DUNBAR.
Tune
—
Johnny M'Gill.
This tune is said to be the composition of John
M' Gill, fiddler, in Gircan, He called it after his
own name.
O, wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar ;
O, wilt thou go wi' me, sweet Tibbie Dunbar
Wilt thou ride on a horse, or be drawn in a car.
Or walk by my side, O sweet Tibbie Dunbar ?
I carena thy daddie, his lands and his money,
I carena thy kin, sae high and sae lordly
But say thou wilt hae me for better for waur.
And come in thy coatie, sweet Tibbie Dunbar
GILL MORICE.*
This plaintive ballad ought to have been called
Child Maurice, and not Gill Morice. In its pre-
* Gray, in one of his letters, thus remarks on Child Maurice :
" I have got the old Scotch ballad on which Douglas was found-
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