ROBERT BURNS

NATIONAL POET OF SCOTLAND

Scottish Country Dances appropriate for a tribute to Robert Burns (and that we've done before): Lea Rig, Here's A Health to Him That's Awa', O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast, Royal Dumfries Volunteers, Waltz Country Dance, Blue Bonnets, White Cockade, Highland Rambler and Tam O' Shanter.

DANCES WITH CONNECTIONS TO ROBERT BURNS (either by name of dance, by use of Burns’ music, or tunes that Burns wrote lyrics for)

TAM O’ SHANTER
Robert Burns' mentions Scottish dancing in the ballad, Tam O'Shanter, which is set in Alloway Auld Kirk:
Warlocks and witches in a dance;
Nae cotillion, brent new frae France
But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys and reels
Brought life and mettle to their heels.

Blue Bonnets

Braes of Balquhidder (Bonnie Peggy Alison)

Braw, Braw Lads (on Yarrow braes)

Cauld Kail in Aberdeen (How Lang and Dreary Is the Night)
Cauld Kail (Come, Let Me Take Thee)

Craigieburn Wood

Dainty Davie (Rantin’ Rovin’ Robin)

The Deil’s Awa

The Deuks Dang O’’er My Daddie (The Highland Lassie)

Duchess Tree (Wantonness)

Duncan Gray

Dundee Reel (Bonnie Dundee) The Belles of Mauchline

The Dusty Miller (Hey, The Dusty Miller)

Espie McNab

Gala Water (Montgomery’s Peggy) (Braw Lads of Gala)

Gallant Weaver

Green Grow the Rashes
Burns wrote "Green grow the rashes, O" lyrics around 1787 when he was about 28.

Grieg’s Pipes (My Lady’’s Gown, There’s Gairs Upon’t)

Here’s a Health to Ane I Lo’e (dear)

Highland Laddie

I’ll Gang nae Mair to Yon toon (Oh, Wat Ye Wha’s in Yon Town)

I'll Mak Ye Fain to Follow Me

The Infare (alternative title: "Will Ye Go and Marry, Ketty?" 1764.

Invercauld's Reel (Burns poem that starts "O Tibbie, I hae seen the day,..." to the tune "Invercauld's Reel" which tune was written down in the 1700s. The dance itself was published about 1755-60. )

The Isle (Bonnie Dundee)

Kenmure’s on and Awa’ (O, Kenmure’s on and Awa’)

Kingussie Flower "On a Bank of Flowers" (to its own tune)

Lady MacIntosh's Rant (Burns wrote words to the tune which gave the name to the dance and the tune)

The Lass o’ Livingston (Oh, Wert thou in the Cauld Blast)

Lassie Wi’ the Lint White Lock

Last May a Braw Wooer

The Lea Rig

Lennox Love to Blantyre

The Linton Ploughman (The Muckin’ o’ Geordies’ Byre) Adown Winding Nith

Maggie Lauder (The Joyful Widower)

A Man’s a Man for A’ That

Mary Morison

Merry Lads of Ayr

Miss Gibson’s Strathspey

Monymusk (Sir Archiband Grant’s Strathspey)

The Moudiewort (song "O for ane and twenty Tam"/"An' o for ane an' twenty" to a version of the tune "The Moudiewort". The dance dates from ca. 1755-60.)

My Love She’s But A Lassie Yet (Lady Badinscoth’s Reel)

My Spouse Nancy

My tocher’s the jewel

O’er the Water to Charlie (Come, Boat Me o’er to Charlie)

Oh Whistle, and I’’ll come Tae Ye (to you, my lad)

Push About the Jorum (The Dumfries Volunteers)

Red House ( the dance dates from Walsh's Caledonian country dances (1750) Over 200 years old! The tune probably dates back to 1694.Burns wrote verses "O, wha my baby-clouts will buy?" to this tune.)

A rosebud by my early walk

Roslin Castle (The Bonnie Banks of Ayr)

Ruffian’s Rant (Theniel Menzies’ Bonnie Mary)

She’s fair and fause

She's Ower Young to Marry Yet (There were several different sets of words to this tune in the 1700s, one by Burns. The dance comes from 1751.)

The Sow’s Tail (O Philly, Happy be that Day)

Soldier’s Joy (from The Jolly Beggars)

This is No My Ain House (This Is No My Ain Lassie)

Up in the Morning early

Ye’re Welcome, Charlie Stuart (Lovely Polly Stewart)

The White Cockade (1797) (The tune for The White Cockade came from 1782 formerly called The Ranting Highlandman until Burns wrote his verses where the last line ends "And follow the boy wi' the White Cockade.")

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