24hr Burns-a-thon
The Gothenburg Time Machine presents
an all day Burns-a-thon on
Tuesday 22nd January 2008.
We’d like to invite you to take part in the first ever Prestonpans Burns-a-thon.
100 Burns poems & songs, recited in Prestonpans to mark the
100th anniversary of the Gothenburg.
Be part of Goth history by reciting or singing 1 of the 100 Burns poems & songs from list below, and performing them at some point during the day of Tuesday 22nd January 2008.
The first 80 recitals and songs can be performed at the time and place of the reciter’s choice, with the final 20 being performed at the Prestoungrange Gothenburg
bar from 6pm onwards.
There will be Burns themed musical entertainment all day at the Goth, where participants of the Burns-a-thon can purchase a pint of ale (or equivalent) & a Gothenburg cheese roll at 1908 prices (i.e. four pence and two pence)
(The recitals do not need to all happen in the Goth, and those signed up to recite elsewhere and can’t make it to the Goth on the day, will receive vouchers to redeem at the Goth.)
All performers will receive a signed certificate to keep - and there will also be up to fifteen mystery prizes presented by myself.
Please contact me to confirm your selection, and also if you’ve any queries:
email johnl1ndsay@btinternet.com
or call me any day after 6pm on 01875 615281
or post to 1 St Josephs Cottages, near TRANENT, East Lothian EH33 1DT
I look forward to hearing from you
With kind regards and best wishes
John Lindsay
Prestoungrange Poet Laureate.
Choose your poem(s)from the following. (Note, the first 25 are best suited to young reciters).
1. To a Mouse
2. To a Mountain Daisy
3. To a Louse
4. Address to the Unco Guid
5. Holy Willie’s Prayer
6. Scots, Whae Hae
7. Such a Parcel of Rogues in the Nation
8. Address to a Haggis
9. Is There for Honest Poverty ( A Man’s a Man….)
10. A Bard’s Epitaph
11. Auld Lang Syne
12. Ae Fond Kiss
13. John Anderson,My Joe
14. A Red,Red Rose
15. I Love my Jean
16. Winter
17. The Banks o’Doon
18. O,Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
19. To Ruin
20. Address to the Toothache
21. The Wounded Hare
22. John Barleycorn
23. Fickle Fortune
24. Raging Fortune
25. The Night was Still
---ooOoo---
26. Rattlin Roarin Willie
27. Love in the Guise of Friendship
28. Go on,Sweet Bard,and Soothe my Care
29. My Hoggie
30. How Long and Dreary the Night
31. Hey the Dusty Miller
32. Talk of Him that’s Far Awa
33. The Winter it is Past
34. The Bonnie Lad That’s Far Awa
35. Of a’ the Airts the Wind Can Blaw
36. My Bonie Mary
37. She’s Fair and Fause
38. Beware o’ BonieAnn
39. On a Bank of Flowers
40. Young Jockie Was the Blythest Lad
41. The Banks of Nith
42. John Anderson, My Jo
43. The Laddie’s Dear Sel
44. The Blue Eyed Lassie
45. A Waukrife Minnie
46. The Gowden Locks of Anne
47. Poem on Sensibility
48. There’ll Never be Peace til Jamie Comes Home
49. Out Over the Forth
50. What can a Lassie do wi’ an Auld Man
51. The Gallant Weaver
52. Johnie Lad, Cock up your Beaver
53. My Eppie Macnab
54. Altho’ He has Left Me
55. My Tocher’s the Jewel
56. Thou Fair Eliza
57. My Bonie Bell
58. Frae the Friends and Land I Love
59. The Song of Death
60. O May they Morn
61. Thou Gloomy December
62. My Native Land Sae Far Away
63. I Do Confess Thou Art Sal Fair
64. Sic a Wife as Willie Had
65. Lady Mary Ann
66. The Country Lass
67. Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel
68. No Cold Approach
69. Let Love Sparkle
70. I’ll Meet Thee on the Lea Rig
71. Auld Rob Morris
72. Braw lads o’ Gala Water
73. Lord Gregory
74. Open the Door to Me,O
75. Lovely Young Jessie
76. The Last Time I Came o’er the Moor
77. Logan Braes
78. Had I a Cave
79. By Allan Stream
80. Deluded Swain, the Pleasure
81. Wilt Thou be my Dearie
82. The Lovely Lass o’ Inverness
83. Pretty Peg
84. Esteem for Chloris
85. Inconstancy in Love
86. The Winter of Life
87. A Man’s a Man for a’That
88. Craigieburn Wood
89. Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
90. There Was a Bonie Lass
91. O Steer her up and Haud her Gaun
92. The Lass o’ Ecclefechan
93. Had I the Wyte? She Bade Me
94. Address to the Woodlark
95. How Cruel are the Parents
96. O Bonie was yon Rosie Brier
97. Now Spring has Clad
98. O Wert Tou in the Cauld Blast
99. Winter: A Dirge
100. A Prayer in the Prospect of Death
(List prepared by JOHN LINDSAY 2007)
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