Scotland's Burning

DESCRIPTION: "Scotland's burning, Scotland's burning, Look out, look out, Fire, fire, fire, fire, Pour on water, pour on water."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Brown); Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs seems to say it is in Thomas Lant's 1580 manuscript
KEYWORDS: nonballad fire
FOUND IN: US(NE,SE) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (10 citations):
Pottie/Ellis-FolksongsOfTheMaritimes, p. 12, "Scotland's Burning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 150, "Scotland's Burning" (1 text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 150, "Scotland's Burning" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Linscott-FolkSongsOfOldNewEngland, p. 283, "Scotland's Burning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 412, "Scotland's Burning" (1 text)
Harbin-Parodology #335, p. 85, "Scotland's Burning" (1 text, 1 tune)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 285, 432, 434. 435, "Scotland's Burning"/"Scotland It Burneth" (notes only)
Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs, p. 120, "Scotland's Burning" (1 text, 1 tune)
OneTuneMore, p. 48, "Scotland's Burning" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Helen Creighton, _A Folk Tale Journey through the Maritimes_, edited by Michael Taft and Ronald Caplan, Breton Books, 1993, p. 146, "(no title)" (1 text, with a frame story)
Roud #3752
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "London's Burning" (lyrics)
cf. "Mother Leary's Cow" (lyrics)
NOTES [40 words]: No doubt some enterprising folklorist has attributed this to one or another of Scotland's various political crises (e.g. the period between the death of Alexander III and the accession of Robert the Bruce). Me, I think it's just a round. - RBW
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