OLD TUNES – ROSLIN CASTLE
The air to Roslin Castle was wrongly attributed to James Oswald. Although it appears in his collection (1752) as Roseland Castle,* it is not marked as his tune.
It had … Continue reading →
OLD TUNES – ROGUES MARCH
Rogue (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary)
n. 1.(Eng. Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
“The Rogue’s March” was … Continue reading →
OLD TUNES – RAKES OF MALLOW
The song with tune was printed about 1740 as a single sheet issue, copies of which are in the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
This well-known drinking song … Continue reading →