Quote Originally Posted by MacConnachie
Todd, is that the same as Is There For Honest Poverty (A Man's A Man, For A' That)?

Work for our local 2006 Burns' Nicht is proceeding ahead. Decorations this year will include a number of tartan samples, with the clans, districts, personages, etc. of each identified, for a' those wha be sae uninitiate.

Mac
Well, I'll swan...I forgot that RB mentions Hodden Grey in "A Man's a Man"! ;)

No, this is a song written in the 19th century, if memory serves me:


The Star o' Rabbie Burns

There is a star whose beaming ray
Is shed on ev'ry clime.
It shines by night, it shines by day
And ne'er grows dim wi' time.
It rose upon the banks of Ayr,
It shone on Doon's clear stream -
A hundred years are gane and mair,
Yet brighter grows its beam.

Chorus
Let kings and courtiers rise and fa',
This world has mony turns
But brightly beams aboon them a'
The star o' Rabbie Burns.

Though he was but a ploughman lad
And wore the hodden grey,
Auld Scotland's sweetest bard was bred
Aneath a roof o'strae.
To sweep the strings o'Scotia's lyre,
It needs nae classic lore;
It's mither wit an native fire
That warms the bosom's core.

Chorus

On fame's emblazon'd page enshrin'd
His name is foremost now,
And many a costly wreath's been twin'd
To grace his honest brow.
And Scotland's heart expands wi' joy
Whene'er the day returns
That gave the world its peasant boy
Immortal Rabbie Burns.

Chorus

--words by James Thomson and music by James Booth
Cheers,

Todd