typed from "Summer holidays in London, Programme, songs, etc, 1911". If that's not the one, there's a song 'Rothesay-O' aka 'The day we went to Rothesay-O'. My source gives no tune for this song and as for the author it only states: "By the author of 'John Halifax, gentleman'". My language correction programme went havoc with this song. Could someone please explain the following words to me: ava, harst, mools, aboon?

Wolfgang

ROTHESAY BAY

Fu' yellow lie the corn-rigs
far down the braid hillside;
it is the brawest harst field
alang the shores o' Clyde,
and I'm a puir harst lassie
wha stands the lee lang day
amang the corn-rigs of Ardbeg
aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.

I had ance a true love,
now I hae nane ava;
and I had three braw brithers,
but I hae tint them a':
My father and my mither
sleep i' the mools this day;
I sit my lane amang the rigs
aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.

It's a bonnie bay at morning,
and bonnier at the noon,
but bonniest when the sun draps,
and red comes up the moon;
when the mist creeps o'er the Cumbraes,
and Arran peaks are gray,
and the great black hills, like sleepin' kings,
sit grand roun' Rothesay Bay.

Then a bit sigh stirs my bosom,
and a wee tear blin's my e'e,
and I think of that far countrie
wha' I wad like to be!
But I rise content i' the morning
to wark, whilst wark I may,
i' the yellow harst field of Ardbeg
aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.