Volume III, song 300, page 310 - 'Get up and bar the Door' - Scanned from the 1853 edition of the 'Scots Musical Museum', James Johnson and Robert Burns (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1853)

Verse 1: 'It fell about the Martinmass time, And a gay time it was then, O When our goodwife got puddings to make And she's boil'd them in the pan O.' Martinmass is celebrated on November 11, and is the feast of St Martin. The 'Scots Musical Museum' is the most important of the numerous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century collections of Scottish song. When the engraver James Johnson started work on the second volume of his collection in 1787, he enlisted Robert Burns as contributor and editor. Burns enthusiastically collected songs from various sources, often expanding or revising them, whilst including much of his own work. The resulting combination of innovation and antiquarianism gives the work a feel of living tradition. This song was first published by David Herd (1732-1810) in the second volume of his 'Scottish Songs Ancient and Modern' (1776). Before appearing here, the tune was also published in James Aird's (d.1819) 'Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs' (1782), but was called, 'The Barring of the Door'.

Collection

Scots Musical Museum

Inventory Number

4503496

Title

Volume III, song 300, page 310 - 'Get up and bar the Door' - Scanned from the 1853 edition of the 'Scots Musical Museum', James Johnson and Robert Burns (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1853)

Object Type

PhysicalObject

Measurements

- 132 x 211 mm