How did the song happen?
I am sure everyone knows the name Robert Burns – also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland’s favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard - was a Scottish poet and a lyricist.
He sent a copy of the original song to the British Museum with the following comment:
“The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never...
