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Thread #134391   Message #3058466
Posted By: Jim McLean
21-Dec-10 - 08:16 AM
Thread Name: Burns lyric query - 'And All That"
Subject: RE: Burns lyric query
Burns wrote a song called "For a' that. an' a' that" in 1789 for Johnson's Scots Musical Museum. It is a humerous song beginning "Tho' women's minds, like winter winds ..." except for the first two lines of the chorus (For a' that, an' a' that, an' twice as mickle a' that) which are taken from an old song to the same tune. (From William Stenhouse's Illustrations to JSMM).
Interestingly enough, and pertinent to the original posting here, Stenhouse gives the first verse to the song in question as "O wha, for honest poverty, Wad hang his head as' a' that? ...."