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Buy CD at www.scotloads.co.uk This video is the original tune and all the words – so seldom sung…. Burns’ mastery here encompasses all the emotion and feeling of old friends meeting up after growing up together then spending years apart. Long established as THE farewell song and often sung (badly) at New Year or Hogmanay as we say in Scotland. These are the words in full and the tune that RB intended be used. See my other videos for Burns items too.
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Heres a virtual movie of Robert Burns 1759 – 1796 reading his much loved poem “Address to a Haggis” Notes to the poem: The haggis, though made up of heterogenous materials not usually in high favour with gourmands, is very palatable and toothsome, and is supposed to be a Scotch adaptation of an ancient French dish. It is composed of minced offal of mutton, meal, and suet, flavored with various condiments in the shape of seasoning. The mess is put into a sheep’s stomach, and boiled therein. In the Edinburgh Literary Journal of 1829, the origin of this piece is explained as follows: “About sixteen years ago there resided at Mauchline Mr. Robert Morrison, cabinetmaker. He was a great crony of Burns’s, and it was in Mr. Morrisons home that the poet usually spent the ‘mids o’ the day’ on Sunday. It was in this house that he wrote his celebrated ‘Address to a Haggis,’ after partaking liberally of that dish as prepared by Mrs. Morrison.” Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, on Jan. 25, 1759, in the cottage of hard-working farmer parents Long considered the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns is the author of “Auld Lang Syne,” “To A Mouse” and “Tam o’ Shanter.” Raised in a poor family of farmers, Burns was nonetheless educated in literature and began writing verse when he was a teenager. His father died in 1784 and Burns tried to make a go of it as a farmer, but found more success with poetry. To raise money to emigrate to Jamaica, he published a collection called …
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