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Author: Robert Ford Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781493743780 Category : Languages : en Pages : 278
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An excerpt from the Preface: These Vagabond Pieces - poor as poetry often admittedly - I esteem of no small value. As a species of folk-lore, even the rudest of them are eminently deserving of rescue. Some are dear to us as "sangs our mithers sang." All for one reason or another - but chiefly for the joy they have given to Scottish rural life- are particularly interesting. My long-cherished conviction that they were wanted in budget form - though I collected originally for my own satisfaction alone.... Many songs and ballads are here, to be sure, which in the strictest sense may not be claimed as vagabonds. Their character, nevertheless, has brought them into the same company; they have lived the vagabond life with the homeless and rapidly-disappearing wanderers for which it is our avowed object to provide permanent housing; and having been found with these, so they are maintained with them in boon companionship - some later pieces being added. All, with their appended notes - and here and there the original airs, not less vagabond than the songs themselves - it is hoped, will find ready and agreeable acceptance. Among the rarer ditties embraced (each with its original melody), will be found "The Bonnet o' Blue," "Bonnie Jeanie Cameron," "A Lassie Lives by yonder Burn," "Jean and Caledonia," "Brannan on the Moor," "The Heights of Alma," "The Gallant Hussar," "A-Begging we will Go," "When John's Ale was New," "The Jolly Ploughboy," "The Banks o' Claudy," and "The Feeing Time," not to mention others equally representative of the class which will be readily recognised as old time favourites. Well, so much for that. Now, in a word, I thank the numerous correspondents - north, east, south, and west - for their esteemed assistance, by fishing out and sending at my request, copies of oral songs for comparison, each as he found them lingering in his district. Very specially I acknowledge my indebtedness to the late Mr. Craibe Angus, so well known in art circles in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, and to Mr. George Gray, the respected town-clerk of Rutherglen, who freely submitted for perusal, to aid in the work, each his very extensive and valuable collection of Scottish Song Chapbooks. To Mr. D. Kippen, Crieff, I am again under pleasing obligation for a number of the more characteristic and hitherto unrecorded melodies. Thanks are due, and gratefully tendered also, to Mr. George Taggart, Glasgow, for his painstaking and esteemed revision of some of the airs.
Author: Robert Ford Publisher: Sagwan Press ISBN: 9781296984519 Category : Languages : en Pages : 284
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Author: Robert Ford Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780364887677 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 278
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Excerpt from Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland: With Many Old and Familiar Melodies Caledonia Brannan on the Moor, The Heights of Alma, The Gallant Hussar, a-begging we will Go When J ohn's Ale was New The Jolly Ploughboy, The Banks 0' Claudy, and The Feeing Time, not to mention others equally representative of the class which will be readily recognised as old time favourites. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Robert Ford Publisher: Alpha Edition ISBN: 9789353927899 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
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