Introduction by Andrew O’Hagan
THE LASSES
Green Grow the Rashes
Mary Morison
The Belles of Mauchline
Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary?
Of A’ the Airts
My Love She’s but a Lassie Yet
Ae Fond Kiss
Afton Water
A Red Red Rose
Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
Lady Mary Ann
A Poet’s Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter
Handsome Nell
THE DRINKS
Scotch Drink
The Silver Tassie
Tam o’ Shanter
The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer
Love and Liberty
The Deil’s Awa’ wi’ the Exciseman
Willie Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut
Auld Lang Syne
Address to the Unco Guid
THE IMMORTALS
Holy Willie’s Prayer
The Kirk of Scotland’s Garland
The Holy Fair
Address to the Deil
Death and Doctor Hornbook
Epistle to a Young Friend
Halloween
To a Louse
THE POLITICS
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
The Twa Dogs
To a Mouse
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn
There’ll Never Be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame
Logan Braes
I Murder Hate
The Tree of Liberty
The Slave’s Lament
A Man’s a Man for A’ That
Glossary
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