Annotation:Kind Robin Lo'es Me

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KIND ROBIN (LO'ES ME). AKA and see "Robin Cushie." Scottish, Slow Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Very Old" states Gow (1817). It was included in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (vol. 5, 1797, No. 478). Melodic material from this tune appears in the song "Bonny Banks o' Loch Lomond." McGibbon (1762) prints the melody as "Robin Cushie." The lyric by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845), begins:

Robin is my ain gudeman,
Now match him, carlins, gin ye can,
For ilk ane whitest thinks her swan,
But kind Robin lo’es me.
To mak’ my boast I’ll e’en be bauld,
For Robin lo’ed me young and auld,
In simmer’s heat, and winter’s cauld,
My kind Robin lo’es me.


Robin he comes hame at e’en,
Wi’ pleasure glancin’ in his een;
He tells me a’ he’s heard and seen,
And syne how he lo’es me.
There’s some ha’e land, and some ha’e gowd,
Mair wad ha’e them gin they cou’d,
But a’ I wish o’ warld’s gude
Is Robin aye to lo’e me.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (Scots Musical Museum, vol. 5), 1796; No. 478, p. 492. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 5.

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