Nae gentle dames tho' ne'er sae fair Shall ever be my Muse's care; Their titles a' are empty show, Gie me my Highland Lassie, O. Within the glen sae bushy, O, Aboon the plain sae rashy ...

The song 'Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks' was written in approximately 1794 and first appeared in George Thomson's Select Collection of Scottish Airs (1801). It is a pastoral song which invokes ...