I'll Gang Nae Mair tae
Yon Toon
(I'll Go No More to Your
Town)
appears earliest in
Robert Bremner's 1757
Collection of Scots
Reels or Country Dances
.
Robert Burns (25 January
1759 – 21 July 1796)
(also known as Rabbie
Burns, Scotland's
favorite son, the
Ploughman Poet, the Bard
of Ayrshire and in
Scotland as simply The
Bard) was a Scottish
poet and a lyricist. He
is widely regarded as
the national poet of
Scotland, and is
celebrated worldwide. He
is the best known of the
poets who have written
in the Scots language,
although much of his
writing is also in
English and a "light"
Scots dialect,
accessible to an
audience beyond
Scotland. He also wrote
in standard English, and
in these pieces, his
political or civil
commentary is often at
its most blunt.
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He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.
I'll gae nae mair tae yon town has been a fruitful source of variants which circulated under various titles. Miss Lucy Johnston of Hilton was a charming and accomplished beauty at the close of the 18th century; a musician and frequenter of concerts and the dance assembly until she married one Richard Oswald of Auchencruive in 1793. Robert Burns wrote extra verses for the song "I'll gang nae mair to yon toon" in honor of her arrival at her husband's family seat, near where he lived. She died of tuberculosis four years later, after the birth of two daughters, despite Oswald's efforts to contain the disease by taking her to