SONG. Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers.[235] So much for Davie. The chorus, you know, is to the low part of the tune. See Clarke's set of it in the Museum. N.B. In the Museum they have drawled out the tune to twelve lines of poetry, which is ---- nonsense. Four lines of song, and four of chorus, is the way.[236]
Letter № 268 · CCLXVIII
To Mr. Thomson
August 1793
Footnotes
- 235. Song CCV.
- 236. See Song LXVII.
- Recipient
- Mr. Thomson
- Dated
- August 1793
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #18500 — The Complete Works of Robert Burns (ed. Allan Cunningham)