The songs of Robert Burns have been popular for over 225 years. They are part of the folk music of Scotland.

You can enjoy these songs even if you don’t understand music or play an instrument. For they can also be read as poems.

Even if you can only just pick out the notes on a keyboard, you can play these timeless melodies.

This small volume can be a nice gift or a coffee table book.

Each of the 35 songs in this book gives you:

• The original music of the melody
• The original verses in their Scottish rhyme
• English rendition of the verses so you know what those Scottish words mean
• Newly created art to help the song tell its story

Much has already been written about the poet. The short bio in this book attempts to answer only one question: Why is Robert Burns the Bard of Scotland?

One of the reasons was that he carefully crafted the words of each song to fit the melody, not the other way around. He did not begin to write the verses until he understood its meaning.

He knew more about the folk music of Scotland than any person in his time.

The world-famous Auld Lang Syne was not in print when he discovered it by an old man’s singing. He took down the words and notes, and later added his own verses.

If it were not for him, we wouldn’t be singing “should auld acquaintance be forgot? all over the world on New Year’s Eve.

Table of Contents

• Portrait of Robert Burns
• Introduction
• Bio of the Bard
• A Man’s a Man for A’ That
• Adown Winding Nith I Did Wander
• Ae Fond Kiss
• Auld Lang Syne
• Banks of Doon (Third Version)
• Banks of Nith
• Behold the Hour, the Boat Arrive!
• Bessie and Her Spinning Wheel
• By Allan Stream I Chanc’d to Rove
• Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes
• Craigieburn Wood
• Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
• Farewell to the Banks of Ayr
• Gallant Weaver
• Green Grow the Rashes, O
• Hey Ca’ Thro’
• Highland Lassie
• Highland Mary
• How Long and Dreary is the Night
• I’ll Ay in by Yon Town
• It Was A’ for Our Rightfu’ King
• John Anderson My Jo, John
• Mary Morison
• Musing on the Roaring Ocean
• My Heart’s in the Highlands
• My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose
• No Churchman Am I
• O, Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
• O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
• O, Rattlin, Roarin Willie
• In the Character of a Ruined Farmer
• Silver Tassie
• Smiling Spring Comes in Rejoicing
• The Winter It is Past
• Wha is That at My Bower Door
• Glossary
• Bibliography

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sample pages of the first song
A Man’s a Man for A’ That

The left page has the original music for the melody and the verses.
The right page has the newly created art and the English rendition.

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