Tune Req: Scotch Drink (Robert Burns)

Subject: Scotch Drink
From: Wolfgang
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 05:22 AM

There's a poem by Robert Burns, called Scotch Drink.

Question: Has there ever been a tune for this poem?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Scotch Drink
From: Max Tone
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 07:58 PM

Wolfgang,
I've heard hundreds of off-the-cuff-self-penned versions of Scotch inspired songs (usually students passing my flat on their way home from the union at 3am), but none had any recognisable tune, or bore no relationship to Burns; unless, of course, you count the effect of several whiskies and a curry upon one's sunshine orifice.
Rob

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Scotch Drink
From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
Date: 26 Oct 00 - 09:45 PM

The poem is in the "Standard Habbie" form, pretty common in Scots verse, but to my knowledge no tune has ever been set to any of the words. So the field is wide open if anyone wants to take up the challenge.