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Neil Macgillivray

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    For the past four years, Neil has been recording  regularly extracts from the works of Robert Burns. These can be heard here on the website or at the WordsofBurns Facebook page.  

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    Neil is always delighted to get feedback from listeners or suggestions for Burns works to record.

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    THE TWA DOGS

    July 27, 2018

    Click to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/the-twa-dogs

    Robert Burns had a favourite dog called “Luath” (Gaelic for quick or fast). He wrote this great poem contrasting the lives of the gentry with that of their cottars by creating a discussion between dogs...

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    GUDE ALE KEEPS THE HEART ABOON

    July 19, 2018

    Click here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/gude-ale-keeps-the-heart-aboon

    This is a traditional song collected and edited by Robert Burns.

    “O gude ale comes and gude ale goes;

    Gude ale gars me sell my hose,

    Sell my hose, and pawn my shoon-

    Gude ale keeps my...

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    A HEALTH TO ANE I LOE DEAR

    July 12, 2018

    Click here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/heres-a-health-to-ane-i-loe-dear

    This is one of several pieces Robert Burns composed for Jessie Lewars, the girl who helped nurse him in his final illness.

    "Here's a health to ane I loe dear, Here's a health to...

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    REMORSE

    July 5, 2018

    Click here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/remorse

    Robert Burns, agreed with the author of ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’, Adam Smith, that Remorse is the most painful sentiment that can embitter the human bosom. He wrote the following as a young man...

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    The Inquisitive Child – a Remembrance Day poem

    November 11, 2019

    Epitaph On Holy Willie

    October 25, 2019

    PEGASUS AT WANLOCKHEAD

    August 31, 2019

    BEHOLD THE HOUR, THE BOAT ARRIVE

    August 15, 2019

    WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT

    July 18, 2019

    THE POSIE

    July 11, 2019

    ON CHLORIS

    June 27, 2019

    HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER (ending)

    June 7, 2019

    O MAY, THY MORN

    May 30, 2019

    HER FLOWING LOCKS

    May 23, 2019

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