with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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CLOUT THE CALDllON.
A TRADITION is mentioned in the Bee, that the
second Bishop Chisholm, of Du7iblane, used to say,
that if he were going to he hanged, nothing would
soothe his mind so much hy the way, as to hear
Clout the Caldron p/rtj/e^/.
I have met with another tradition, that the old
song to this tune
Hae ye ony pots or pans.
Or onie broken chanlersj
was composed on one of the Kenmure family, in the
Cavalier times ; and alluded to an amour he had,
while under hiding, in the disguise of an itinerant
tinker. The air is also known by the name of
The Blacksmith and his Apron,
whichfrom the rhythm, seems to have been a line of
some old song to the tune.