Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife

Subject: Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife
From: GUEST,Snori
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 04:23 PM

Hi Guys,

I am looking for Robert Burns' song called Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife. Unfortunatelly I can not find it in any official Robert Burns poems sets.

I would be very grateful for your help

Snori [e-mail] www.slainte.art.pl

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife
From: Big Tim
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 03:05 PM

Snori, how do you know it's a Burns song, if it's not in any of the Burns books, websites?

Subject: Lyr Add: DUNCAN MACLEERIE (from The Merry Muses...
From: curmudgeon
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 05:04 PM

From the Legman editionj of the Merry Muses of Caledonia.

DUNCAN MACLEERIE

Tune -- Jocky Mabgill

Dincan Macleerie and Janet his wife,
They gaed to Kilmarnock to buy a new knife;
But instead of a knife, they coft but a bleerie;
We're very weel saird, quo' Duncan Macleerie.

Dincan Macleerie has got a new fiddle,
Its all strung wi' hair and a hole in the middle;
And aye when he plays on't , his wife looks sae cheery,
Very weel done Duncan quo' Janet Macleerie.

Duncan he played 'till his bow it grew greasy;
Janet grew fearfu' and unco uneasy.
Hoot quo' she Duncan, you're unco soon weary;
Play us a pibroch, quo' Janet Macleerie.

Duncan Macleerie he played on the harp,
An' Janet Macleerie she danced in her sark;
Her sark it was short , her c---t it was hairy,
Very weel danc'd, Janet, quo' Duncan Macleerie

Not in any standard Burns collection -- Tom

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife
From: curmudgeon
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 05:27 PM

Excuse the typoas, please. The tune should read "Jocky Macgill."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 09:31 PM

This seems not to be a Burns song. The song Burns wrote to the tune of "Johnny McGill [Jocky Macgill]" is "Tibbie Dunbar."
~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 09:36 PM

It's in the collected by Burns section; not his own work, though it passed through his hands so to speak. Hence, I suppose, the confusion.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife
From: GUEST,Snori
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 02:08 PM

Thank you very much.
I heard this song in the radio, and I liked it very much. Thanks for your help.
Snori