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There was a Lad (audio)
The tune can also be called Rantin' Rovin' Robin.
This is a lovely song and fiddle tune by Robert Burns. The words were written to the tune "My Dainty Davie".
This song is said to be at least 16th century as the Reformers are known to have used it for one of their hymns. One in a series of songs by Robert Burns arranged in a contemporary style for voice and piano by Jean Nicolson.
A song about 'The Bard' by 'The Bard'. A voice/piano setting full of humour, rhythm, momentum and flashes of parody.