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English song

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/02/96
Alt. number
3.6254
On display
No
Creator
Burns, Robert (Author)
Recipient
Thomson, George

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Description

English song. One of three poems together. Begins: "Husband, husband, cease your strife". Suggested by MacKay as being "an Anglicisation of the traditional ballad 'My Jo Janet'. sent to Thomson in December 1793". 4 eight-line verses.


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Hierarchy

  1. Robert Burns, collection of poems and songs ( )
  2. English song

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