Volume III, song 299, page 309 - 'The Campbells are comin' - Scanned from the 1853 edition of the 'Scots Musical Museum', James Johnson and Robert Burns (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1853)

Verse 1: 'The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho! The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho! The Campbells are comin to bonie Loch Leven, The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho! Upon the Lomons I lay, I lay, Upon the Lomons I lay, I lay, I looked down to bonie Lochleven And saw three bonie perches play.' Chorus: 'The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho! The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho! The Campbells are comin to bonie Loch Leven, The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho!' 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. The index to this volume of the 'Museum' states, 'Said to be composed on the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots in Lochleven Castle', which was in 1567. But Glen (1900), refutes any claim that it is a sixteenth-century tune, since he cannot find it published anywhere before approximately 1745 when it appeared in Walsh's 'Caledonian Country Dances', under the name 'Hob or Nob'. However, whether this was the title of the tune or of the dance, Glen is uncertain.

Collection

Scots Musical Museum

Inventory Number

4503495

Title

Volume III, song 299, page 309 - 'The Campbells are comin' - 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