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The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd

Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg]

Hogg, James (1770-1835)

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THE QUEEN'S WAKE.

[Shepherd of Ettrick! as of yore]

THE MOUNTAIN BARD.

MADOR OF THE MOOR.

THE PILGRIMS OF THE SUN.

THE POETIC MIRROR.

QUEEN HYNDE.

THE FOREST MINSTREL.

CLASS FIRST—PATHETIC SONGS.

CLASS SECOND—LOVE SONGS.

CLASS THIRD—HUMOROUS SONGS.

CLASS FOURTH—NATIONAL SONGS.

Bauldy Frazer.

Scotia's Glens.

The Jubilee.

The Auld Highlandman.

Buccleuch's Birth-Day.

Highland Harry back again.

Hap an' rowe the feetie o't.

Born, Laddie.

Donald M'Donald.

By a Bush.

Prince Owen and the Seer.

The British Tar.

POETICAL TALES AND BALLADS.

POEMS DESCRIPTIVE AND SENTIMENTAL.

SACRED MELODIES.

MISCELLANEOUS SONGS.

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The British Tar.

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Air—“Pull Away.”

I'm a jolly British tar,
Pull away, noble boys!
I'm a jolly British tar,
Pull away.
I'm a jolly British tar
Who have borne her thunders far,
Yet I'm here without a scar;
Pull away, noble boys!
Yet I'm here without a scar,
Pull away.

I've with Nelson fac'd the foe,
Pull away, noble boys!
I've with Nelson fac'd the foe;
Pull away.
I've with Nelson fac'd the foe;
Quite enough to let you know
That I conquer where I go,
Pull away, noble boys!
Britons conquer where they go,
Pull away.

We've stood many a dreadful shock,
Pull away, noble boys!
We've stood many a dreadful shock,
Pull away.
We've stood many a dreadful shock;
Like the thunder-stricken rock,
We've been splinter'd—never broke!
Pull away.

Round the earth our glory rings,
Pull away, noble boys!
Round the earth our glory rings,
Pull away.
Round the earth our glory rings,
At the thought my bosom springs;
Of the ocean we're the kings,
Pull away, noble boys!
Of the ocean we're the kings,
Pull away.