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Thread #87853 Message #1645837
Posted By: Bob Bolton
10-Jan-06 - 06:22 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Free Mason's Song
Subject: RE: Tune Req: The Free Mason's Song
G'day Peace,
Yes ... this is where we do need the ancient text (Ramsay's Tea- Table Miscellany), which is 1780s - if I remember aright ... or some modern reprint. In Burns's time, there seems to have been no confusion about which "Masonic Song"/tune was needed ... but there are now more contenders.
I should address the query to Malcolm Douglas, who is great on the English sources ... and, we hope, on those to the north of the Cheviot Hills!