Jean Armour's Playlist
Should Auld Acquaintance abounds with the songs of Robert Burns and traditional folk songs. Jean Armour was a talented singer who took lessons at the Mauchline music school. She knew the country ballads by heart and greatly assisted her husband in the central work of his life, collecting and amending the old Scots tunes. You can listen below to some fine renditions of the songs featured in the book.
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“The Belles of Mauchline”:
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“Rantin Rovin Robin”:
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“The Reel o’ Stumpie”:
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“Hushaby Birdie Croon Croon”:
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“Jamie Come Try Me”:
“My Heart’s in the Highlands”:
“Baloo, baloo my wee wee thing”:
“To the Weaver’s Gin Ye Go”:
“O’er the Muir Amang the Heather”:
“O Can Ye Sew Cushions”:
My Luv is Like a Red Red Rose”:
“The Winter It Is Past”:
“Oh Were I On Parnassus Hill”:
“Auld Lang Syne”:
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“Ae Fond Kiss”:
“Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon”:
“Of All the Airts the Wind Can Blaw”:
“Scots Wha Hae”:
“A Man’s a Man for A’ That”:
“My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet”:
“What Can a Young Do Wi’ an Old Man”:
“Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast:”
“Ca the Yowes To the Knowes”:
“It was upon a Lammas Night”:
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