Volume VI, song 599, page 619 - 'I care na for your een sae blue' - Scanned from the 1853 edition of the 'Scots Musical Museum', James Johnson and Robert Burns (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1853)

Verse 1: 'I care na for your een sae blue, Unless your heart to me is true, Nor yet that dimpled cheek o' thine, Till ev'ry smile ye hae be mine. D'ye think I'll roose your shape an' Air, Or ca' you bonie sweet an' fair Unless ye can to me impart, A look which say ye hae my heart.' 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 melody to this piece has no title or author. The lyrics, however, are by the Edinburgh stationer and music-seller, John Hamilton (1761-1814). Hamilton was renown at the time for his popular poem, 'Up in the morning early'. Hamilton, already involved in the printing industry, is thought to have printed this song as an individual sheet for sale.

Collection

Scots Musical Museum

Inventory Number

4503794

Title

Volume VI, song 599, page 619 - 'I care na for your een sae blue' - 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

- 129 x 211 mm