Club Members are invited to submit any Burns Trivia for inclusion on this page. – Let’s start with three pieces of Trivia from across the Pond — In James Fenimore Cooper’s …
Open any book of Burns’ work, and there will be someone’s impression of what he looked like somewhere in its pages. Taylor’s portrait has often been claimed to be most realistic, …
Thou whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these maxims on thy soul. Life is but a day at …
Tune “There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.“ Now in her green mantle blythe Nature arrays, And listens the lambkins that bleat o’er her braes; While birds warble welcomes …
Now rosy May comes in wi’ flowers, To deck her gay, green-spreading bowers; And now comes in the happy hours, To wander wi’ my Davie. Chorus – Meet me on …
Braw, braw lads on Yarrow-braes, They rove amang the blooming heather; But Yarrow braes, nor Ettrick shaws Can match the lads o’ Galla Water. But there is ane, a secret …
The deil cam fiddlin’ thro’ the town, And danc’d awa wi’ th’ Exciseman, And ilka wife cries, “Auld Mahoun, I wish you luck o’ the prize, man.” Chorus – The …
Where Cart rins rowin’ to the sea, By mony a flower and spreading tree, There lives a lad, the lad for me, He is a gallant Weaver. O, I had …
Unusually, Burns wrote three versions of this Song. All three are included here. First Version Sweet are the banks-the banks o’ Doon, The spreading flowers are fair, And everything is …
Chorus – Ca’ the yowes to the knowes, Ca’ them where the heather grows, Ca’ them where the burnie rowes, My bonie dearie As I gaed down the water-side, There …