with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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tULLOCHGORUM.
This, first of songs, is the master-piece of my old
friend Skinner, He zms passing the day at the
town of Ellon, I think it was, in a friend's house
whose name was Montgomery.— Mrs. Montgomery
observing, en passant, that the beautiful reel of
Tullochgorum wanted zvords, she begged them of
Mr. Skinner, zvho gratified her wishes, and the
wishes of every lover of Scottish song, in this most
excellent ballad.
These particulars I had from the author's son,
Bishop Skinner, at Aberdeen.
Come gie's a sang, Montgomery cry'd,
And lay your disputes all aside,
What signifies't for folks to chide
For what was done before them
Let Whig and Tory all agree,
Whig and Tory, Whig and Tory,
Whig and Tory all agree.
To drop their Whig-mig-morum.*
* Whig-ipig-morum occurs in Habbie Simpson's epitaph—
" Sa Weill's he keipit his decorum,
And all the stotis of QuMp Meg Morum,'^
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Stotis