with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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THE SOGER LADDIE.
The first verse of this is
Ramsay.—The tune seems to
old; the rest is by
he the same with a
or, The
slow air, called Jacky Hume's Lament
HoUin Buss— or, Ken ye what Meg o' the Mill has
gotten ?
WHERE WAD BONIE ANNIE LI]
The old name of this tune is—
Whare'U our Gudeman lie.
A silly old stanza of it runs thus—
O whare'll our gudeman lie,
Gudeman lie, gudeman lie,
O whare'll our gudeman lie.
Till he shute o'er the simmer ?
This song may be seen in Playford's Select Ayres, 1659, folio,
under the title of a Song to a forsaken Mistresse.
It is also printed in Ellis's Specimens of the early English PoetSf
vol. iii. p. 325.
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