Volume I, song 078, pages 78 and 79 - 'Loch Eroch Side' - Scanned from the 1853 edition of the 'Scots Musical Museum', James Johnson and Robert Burns (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1853)

Verse 1: 'As I came by Loch Eroch side, The lofty hills surveying, The water clear, The heather blooms, Their fragrance sweet conveying, I met unsought, my lovely maid, I found her like May morning, With Graces sweet, and Charms so rare, Her Person all adorning, Person all adorning.' 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. There is another set of untitled lyrics written by Robert Burns set to the same tune. Verse 1: 'Young Peggy blooms our boniest lass, / Her blush is like the morning, / The rosy dawn, the springing grass, / With early gems adorning: / Her eyes outshine the radiant beams / That gild the passing shower, / And glitter o'er the chrystal streams, / And chear each freshing flower.'

Collection

Scots Musical Museum

Inventory Number

4503273

Title

Volume I, song 078, pages 78 and 79 - 'Loch Eroch Side' - 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

- 260 x 211 mm