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Thread #58285   Message #2600944
Posted By: Jim Dixon
30-Mar-09 - 11:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: O the Shearing's Not For You
Subject: RE: Origins: O the Shearing's Not For You
In The Popular Songs of Scotland with Their Appropriate Melodies by George Farquhar Graham, revised by J. Muir Wood (Edinburgh: J. Muir Wood and Co., 1887), the editor says, in a footnote to KELVIN GROVE:

"The original name of the air was, 'O the shearin's no for you,' which was the first line of a song now deservedly forgotten."

[Indeed, I am unable to find any lyrics to this song in old Scottish songbooks digitized by Google.--JD]