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["" is said to have been a carter or carman in Glasgow, about the beginning of the last century, and the tune which goes by his name is said to have been taken down from his whistling. The following is the old set of words as altered by Burns for Johnson's Museum.]

[ by in December, 1792, for Thomson's collection. Its humour and have made it an universal favourite.]

[ is given in Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany, as an old song. Ramsay, however, was obliged to curtail the original ballad on account of its coarseness. The tune of "Auld Rob Morris" is in an old MS. collection, dated 1692, belonging at one time to Mr. Blaikie, engraver, Paisley, called "Jock the Laird's Brother."]

Rob Morris, that wons in yon glen,

He's the king o' guid fallows, and wale o' auld men;

He has fourscore o' black sheep, and fourscore too;

Auld Rob Morris is the man ye maun lo'e.