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Thread #24649   Message #283217
Posted By: pastorpest
23-Aug-00 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Cock Up Your Beaver (Robert Burns?)
Subject: RE: Cock Up Your Beaver - Burns
My copy of "The Works of Robert Burns" published by the Wordsworth Poetry Library contains Cock Up Your Beaver. The first line is "When first my brave Johnnie lad/Came to this town." According to Ian McIntyre in his carefully researched biography of Burns "Dirt & Diety" Cock Up your Beaver was included in the fourth volume of the Scots Musical Museum. I really recommend "Dirt & Diety" published by HarperCollins ISBN 0 00 215964 3 available in both hardback and paperback. Although acedemic it is a marvelous resource for those interested in Burns.