Happy Birthday Rabbie

[Greenmachine]

Today is the birthday of Scotland's much celebrated Bard, Robert Burns, a genius of a man who created some of the most famous songs and poems many of which are still sung and recited all over the world today. Ae Fond Kiss is for me one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.

Never actually been to a Burns supper, but would like to one day..

Happy Birthday Rabbie !

 

[MixuDave]

Fair looking forward tae ma haggis, tatties and neeps the night
Happy birthday Rabbie

 

[aggie]

Indeed.

Tam O'Shanter is my favourite - the greatest ever vindication of having a cheeky peeve and a roving eye ever written.

 

[arthurduncan]

my grandad used to sing this for many years after his beloved wife, my granny, died. He was an Anderson, but not a John Anderson

John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent;
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonie brow was brent;
But now your brow is beld, John,
Your locks are like the snaw;
But blessings on your frosty pow,
John Anderson, my jo.

John Anderson, my jo, John,
We clamb the hill thegither;
And mony a cantie day, John,
We've had wi' ane anither:
Now we maun totter down, John,
And hand in hand we'll go,
And sleep thegither at the foot,
John Anderson, my jo.

On this day I think mainly of that great man, my grandad, sleeping thegither with his beloved wife. Rabbie makes that thought all the more poetic.

 

[Frenchman]

Today is the birthday of Scotland's much celebrated Bard, Robert Burns, a genius of a man who created some of the most famous songs and poems many of which are still sung and recited all over the world today. Ae Fond Kiss is for me one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.

Never actually been to a Burns supper, but would like to one day..

Happy Birthday Rabbie !

A very appropriate post! I have attended many a Supper, some with a very talented Bouncer (now in Alabama) who recited Tam o' Shanter and many other of the Bard's works. You would enjoy yourself, I am sure.
Incidentally, McKellar's rendering of Ae Fond Kiss is unsurpassed, in my view.