Wap at the Widow
For works with similar titles, see The Widow.
- "The Widow" in Auld Robin Gray (1790)
- "Wap at the Widow" in The Book of Scottish Song (ed.) by Alexander Whitelaw (1843)
"This good old tune, we are informed, belonged to a song so indelicate that Ramsay remodelled it, retaining the wit of the original words, and rejecting all offensive expressions. Stenhouse tells us that it was printed by Thomson in his Orpheus Caledonius, in 1725. This, however, is another of his mis-statements, as it did not appear till the second volume was published in 1733." —John Glen, Early Scottish Melodies (1900)