with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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Let Whig and Tory all agree
To spend the night wi' mirth and glee,
And cheerful sing alang wi' me,
The Reel o' TuUochgorum.
O, Tullochgorum's my delight,
It gars us a' in ane unite.
And ony sumph that keeps up spite.
In conscience I abhor him
For blythe and cheerie we'll be a',
Blythe and cheerie, blythe and cheerie,
Blythe and cheerie we'll be a',
And make a happy quorum.
For blythe and cheerie we'll be a',
As lang as we hae breath to draw,
And dance till we be like to fa'
The Reel o' TuUochgorum.
What needs there be sae great a fraise,
Wi' dringing dull Italian lays,
I wadna gie our ain Strathspeys *
For half a hunder score o' them.
They're dowf and dowie at the best,
Dowf and dowie, dowf and dowie,
Dowf and dowie at the best,
Wi' a' their variorum ;
Stotis means notes of music. Quhip meg-morum, the na;ne of
an old air; therefore the sense is, Notes of Whip'meg-morum
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