Bottom's Song- Parody of Lammie- 1832
"Bottom's Song" is a parody of "The Lammie" (which is the same songs as, My Boy Tammie). Published in 1832 it is a satire on the election addresses of John Archibald Murray(1779-1859), Lord Murray. Murray was a Scottish judge and one of the joint editors of the Edinburgh review.
Since some reasearchers consider The Lammie (Billy Boy) to be a parody of Lord Randal, then this is a parody of a parody.
It was also published as a broadside by McNeil and Co. (Edinburgh) and there are copies: Harding B 27(44) and Johnson Ballads fol. 305 in the Bodleian Library. Below is the first of six verses:
Bottom's Song
Whar ha'e ye been a' day, My puir Bottom?
Whar bae ye been a' day, My witless, weary Bottom?
I've been the voters for to woo,
In Leith and Musselburgh too;
The carles they leuch, and crook'd their mou',
And cried — Awa wi' Bottom!