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Thread #27566   Message #339481
Posted By: GUEST,Liam's Brother
12-Nov-00 - 11:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tibbie Dunbar (Robert Burns, Jim McLean)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: TIBBIE DUNBAR
As Abby stated above, Burns wrote only the first verse. I first heard the song about 26 or 27 years ago at a concert in Cambridge, MA presented by Peter Johnson. Declan Hunt was the singer. I believe this would have predated recordings by The Dubliners, for example. I put the song in my collection, A Bonnie Bunch of Roses, because its a great song but particularly because of the extra verse.

The air is "Johnnie McGill," said to be, as I recall, the composition of a fiddler by that name from Burns' native Ayrshire. I recorded the song in 1976 with a group named The Flying Cloud.

All the best, Dan Milner