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A - After The Ball
B - Babes In The Wood
C - Cushie Butterfield
D - Don't Get Married, Girls
E - Eskdale Hare
F - Flowers Of The Forest
G - Grandfather's Clock
H - Henry Martin
I - I Will Give My Love An Apple
J - Jolly Beggarman
K - Kelly, The Boy From Killanne
L - The Lambton Worm
M - Master McGrath
N - Nottingham Ale
O - Our Captain Cried All Hands
P - A Parting Glass
Q - Queensland Overlander (Queensland Rover)
R - Road (And The Miles) to Dundee
S - St James Infirmary
T - Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn
U - Underneath Her Apron
V - The Volunteer Organist
W - What A Friend We Have In Jesus
X - The XXIII February
Y - Ye Cannae Shove Y'r Granny Off A Bus
Z - (I'd Like To Swim In The) Zuider Zee

Here's some notes on "Flowers of The Forest" and another version of the lyrics.

"Flowers Of The Forest"

There are three different songs to the old tune.

Jane (Jean) Elliot (1727-1805) wrote the poem "The Flowers of the Forest: A Lament for Flodden" and published it anonymously circa 1755. It was, at the time, thought to be an ancient surviving ballad. However, Burns suspected it was an imitation, and Burns, Ramsay and Sir Walter Scott eventually discovered who wrote the song. It is the most popular version.

Lament For Flodden
by Jane Elliot (1727-1805) - written circa 1755

I've heard them liltin', at the ewe milkin,
'Lasses a-liltin' before dawn of day.
Now there's a moanin', on ilka green loanin'.
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.

As boughts in the mornin', nae blithe lads are scornin',
Lasses are lonely and dowie and wae.
Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighin' and sobbin',
Ilk ane lifts her leglin, and hies her away.

At e'en in the gloamin', nae swankies are roamin',
'Mang stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play.
But ilk maid sits drearie, lamentin' her dearie,
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.

In har'st at the shearin' nae youths now are jeerin'
Bandsters are runkled, and lyart, or grey.
At fair or at preachin', nae wooin', nae fleecin',
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.

Dool for the order sent our lads to the Border,
the English for ance by guile wan the day.
The flowers of the forest, that fought aye the foremost,
The prime of our land lie cauld in the clay.

We'll hae nae mair liltin', at the ewe milkin',
Women and bairns are dowie and wae.
Sighin' and moanin' on ilka green loanin',
The flowers of the forest are all wede away.

According to The Scots Musical Museum there is a fragment of an old ballad in the Skene Manuscript titled The flowres of the Forrest, and an air so titled appeared in Oswald's collection and several others. However, the old ballad did not survive. The earliest version was the one below, by Mrs. Cockburn. According to the Museum, a man known to Mrs. Cockburn heard a shepherd playing a flute. Fascinated by the air, he learned it was The Flowers of the Forest. He committed the air to memory and communicated it to Mrs. Cockburn. She recognized the tune and knew some lines of the old ballad. He prevailed upon her to write new words.

Flowers of The Forest
Alison Rutherford Cockburn (1712-1794)

I've seen the smiling
Of fortune beguiling,
I've tasted her pleasures,
And felt her decay;
Sweet is her blessing,
And kind her caressing,
But now they are fled
And fled far away.

I've seen the forest
Adorned the foremost,
Wi' flowers o' the fairest
Baith pleasant and gay,
Sae bonnie was their blooming,
Their scent the air perfuming,
But now they are withered away.

I've seen the morning,
With gold hills adorning,
And loud tempests storming,
Before parting day,
I've seen Tweed's silver streams,
Glitt'ring in the sunny beams,
Grow drumlie and dark,
As they roll'd on their way;

O fickle fortune!
Why this cruel sportin?
Oh! Why thus perplex
Us poor sons of a day?
Thy frown canna fear me,
Thy smile canno cheer me,
Since the flowers o' the forest
Are a' wede away.

Mrs. John Hunter, wife of the famous anatomical professor, published a volume of Poems in 1802. Her song, Adieu Ye Streams that Swiftly Glide, appeared in The Lark, in 1765, as a proposed setting to the old air The Flowers of the Forest, and it is the third set to that tune in volume I of Johnson's Museum.

The Battle of Flodden Field took place in 1513. It is frequently said that James IV attacked England when Henry VIII invaded France, to honour the alliance between Scotland and France. In fact, James was married to Henry's sister and a treaty of friendship existed between England and Scotland at the time.

The Battle of Flodden was a disaster for the Scots, with estimates of Scottish losses numbering as high as ten thousand. Numerous nobles were killed in the battle, including King James. The "Flowers of the Forest" in this and the following song are the men of Ettrick Forest in Selkirkshire who fell at the battle.

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