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Robert Nicoll

born 1814


Robert Nicoll (born 1814) 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 5 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 4 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. Ordé Braes
  2. The Muir o' Gorse and Broom
  3. The Bonnie Hieland Hills
  4. The Bonnie Rowan Bush
  5. Bonnie Bessie Lee
  6. The Hero
  7. We Are Brethren a'

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