Romantic

David Macbeth Moir

1798–1851


David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 3 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 3 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. Casa Wappy
  2. Farewell, Our Fathers' Land
  3. Heigh Ho
  4. Casa's Dirge
  5. Jamie's on the Stormy Sea
  6. Song of the South
  7. The Rustic Lad's Lament in the Town

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