audio CDs Scots Language Society
£18 dual CD set

    The Soun o Burns

  James A. MacBain

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sscd 139-1

 

 

track details

 

The Soun o Burns — CD1 of 2

1 Address to a Haggis Jimmy MacBain 2:07

2 A Man’s a Man Robert Shankland 1:49

3 Address to the Unco Guid Jimmy MacBain 3:23

4 Death and Dr Hornbook Tom Crawford 8:38

5 Holy Willie’s Prayer Jimmy MacBain 5:02

6 Tam o Shanter Jimmy MacBain 10:28

7 Tam Samson’s Elegy Jimmy MacBain 5:01

8 To a Louse Jimmy MacBain 2:13

9 To a Mountain Daisy Jimmy MacBain 2:26

10 To a Mouse Jimmy MacBain 2:13

Total running time on this CD 43:20

 

sscd 139-2 The Soun o Burns — CD2 of 2

1 The Death and Dying Words

of Poor Mailie Jean Taylor Smith 3:36

2 The Holy Fair Robert Shankland 10:25

3 The Auld Farmer’s New-Year Salutation

to his Auld Mare, Maggie Robert Shankland 4:57

4 Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet Frank Bryson 6:53

5 Epistle to Colonel de Peyster Tom Crawford 2:32

6 Address to the Toothache Jimmy MacBain 1:37

7 Address of Beelzebub Tom Crawford 4:16

8 Address to the Deil Tom Crawford 5:26

9 Auld Lang Syne Jean Taylor Smith 1:26

Total running time on this CD 41:08

 

Other poems in the book are to be found on Scotsoun compact discs SSCD 008 Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, recorded in association with the Irvine Burns Club, and in The Scotsoun Makars Series SSCD 035, 036 and 037
Poems of Robert Burns
; selection and commentary by Dr Tom Crawford