It's that time of year....(songs for Burns Night)

Subject: It's that time of year.....
From: Mo
Date: 13 Jan 99 - 08:59 PM

"It's that time of year" as in we are fast approaching Burn's Night. For my sins I've agreed to do the traditional "Reply for the Lassies/Toast to the Laddies" speech at a Burns supper at the end of the month.

Any 'catters got some good ideas for useable Burns quotes from his song or lyrics? I've already thought of, and have the words to "A Man's a Man". Anything else?

I suppose I'm looking more for stuff that berates and/or praises men directly rather than his appreciation of the lassies - I don't want to either steal the thunder of my fellow speakers, or sound lame by repeating their thoughts if I speak after them.

Thanks in advance.

Mo

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: Mo
Date: 13 Jan 99 - 09:02 PM

That is "Burns" not "Burn's" Night of course..... Tchah!

Mo

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: katlaughingkatlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 99 - 09:16 PM

There are a few in a boook I've got that might fit:

"For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, 'The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, "Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan, And none but he!" (Second Epistle to Lapraik)

"From scenes like these old Soctia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad; Princes and Lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God.'" (Death and Dr. Hornbook,iii)

"Good Lord, what is man? for simple as he looks, Do but try to develop his hooks and his crooks, With his depths and his shadows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil." (Sketch: inscribed to C.J. Fox)

Katlaughing

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: WillWill (inactive)
Date: 13 Jan 99 - 10:34 PM

That last, from Sketch, is very nice.

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: BarbaraBarbara
Date: 13 Jan 99 - 11:51 PM

And there's always, if it's not too hackneyed, "O wad some power the Giftie gie us, to see oursel's as ithers see us; it wud frae mony a blunder free us, and foolish notion, 'bout ways in dress an gait would lea' us, and e'en devotion."
Not about men, but us all, and does everyone know it's a reflection on watching a flea walk thru a womans hat/hair while in church?
Blessings, Blessings,
BarbaraBarbara

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: KrisKingBrilliant
Date: 14 Jan 99 - 08:38 AM

Wee sleekit cowrin tim'rous beastie.

Fits some men I know..... except their not very sleekit.

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: Bruce
Date: 15 Jan 99 - 08:19 AM

Depending on your approach, 'O That I Had Ne'er Been married' could be useful.

O that I had ne'er been married, I wad never had nae care; Now I've gotten wife and bairns, An' they cry crowdie ever mair.

... and that's given a kick along by 'Let Not Woman E'er Complain'

Let not woman e'er complain Of inconsistancy in love; Let not woman e'er complain Fickle man is apt to rove; Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change; Ladies, would it not be strange, Man should then a monster prove?

Keep looking through Rabbie's poems for what you want - he had a line for every occasion.

Bruce Cameron

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: Bruce
Date: 15 Jan 99 - 08:20 AM

Depending on your approach, 'O That I Had Ne'er Been married' could be useful.

O that I had ne'er been married, I wad never had nae care; Now I've gotten wife and bairns, An' they cry crowdie ever mair.

... and that's given a kick along by 'Let Not Woman E'er Complain'

Let not woman e'er complain Of inconsistancy in love; Let not woman e'er complain Fickle man is apt to rove; Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change; Ladies, would it not be strange, Man should then a monster prove?

Keep looking through Rabbie's poems for what you want - he had a line for every occasion.

Bruce Cameron

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: Mo
Date: 24 Jan 99 - 09:44 AM

Thanks for your help folks, it's much appreciated!

Mo

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jan 99 - 11:55 AM

Mo, this is a little late, but here's another from the song "Had I Wyte" as recorded by Jean Redpath:

third verse:

Could I for shame, could I for shame,
Could I for shame refused her?
And wouldna manhood been to blame,
Had I unkindly used her?
He claw'ed her with the ripplin-kame [flax-comb]
And blae [blue] and bloody bruised her -
When sic [such] a husband was frae [from] home
What wife but wad [would have] excused her!

Subject: RE: It's that time of year.....
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jan 99 - 11:55 AM

Mo, this is a little late, but here's another from the song "Had I The Wyte" as recorded by Jean Redpath:

third verse:

Could I for shame, could I for shame,
Could I for shame refused her?
And wouldna manhood been to blame,
Had I unkindly used her?
He claw'ed her with the ripplin-kame [flax-comb]
And blae [blue] and bloody bruised her -
When sic [such] a husband was frae [from] home
What wife but wad [would have] excused her!