Scotland's Burning

"London's Burning (round)" redirects here. For The Clash's, see London's Burning (song).

A drinking fountain next to the Monument to the Great Fire of London, showing the song's words

"Scotland's Burning", "London's Burning", and variants are a song and nursery rhyme popular with children.

Words

The song can be sung as a round when each part starts two bars after the previous one. It may be an example of a nursery rhyme with tragic or violent themes. The lyrics are said to be about Great Fire of London, a five-day fire in the city of London in 1666.^[1] However, the first notation of a round in this theme dates from 1580.^[2]

The lyrics are mentioned in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, scene 1, when Gremio asks Curtis to prepare a warm fire for guests.^[3]

Musical scores

"Scotland's Burning" (1580)^[2]

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"London's Burning"^[1]

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"Scotland's Burning" in duple meter.^[4]^[5]^[6]

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References

1 2 Margaret Read MacDonald & Winifred Jaeger (2006). The Round Book: Rounds Kids Love to Sing, p.73. August House. ISBN 9780874837865.
1 2 Lindahl, Greg. "Scotland, It Burneth", Ravenscroft Songbook. Cites Vlasto, Jill. "An Elizabethan Anthology of Rounds", Musical Quarterly XL (1954) 222-234. Accessed August 25, 2015.
↑ (1902). "Music of Shakspere's Time", Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, Volume 69, p.243-4. J.B. Lippincott. pre-ISBN.
↑ Mason, Lowell (1837). Parley's Magazine, Volume 5, p.191.
↑ Kaye Pottie, Vernon Ellis, Kathy Kaulbach (1992). Folksongs of the Maritimes: From the Collections of Helen Creighton and Other Distinguished Maritime Folklorists, p.12. Formac. ISBN 9780887802003.
↑ Newman Ivey White, Jan Philip Schinhan; eds. (1977). The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore: Vol. V: The Music of the Folk Songs, p.115. Duke University. ISBN 9780822382850.

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Downloadable sheet music and mp3s

Nursery rhymes (list)

"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" "Did You Ever See a Lassie?" "Hey Diddle Diddle" "Hickory Dickory Dock" "Hot Cross Buns" "Humpty Dumpty" "I'm a Little Teapot" "It's Raining, It's Pouring" "Jack and Jill" "Little Bo Peep" "Little Boy Blue" "Little Miss Muffet" "Mary Had a Little Lamb" "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" "Old King Cole" "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" "Old Mother Hubbard" "Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" "Peter Piper" "Polly Put the Kettle On" "Poor Mary" "Pop Goes the Weasel" "Pussy Cat Pussy Cat" "Rain Rain Go Away" "Roses Are Red" "Rub-a-dub-dub" "Simple Simon" "Sticks and Stones" "The Grand Old Duke of York" "The Queen of Hearts" "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" "Two Little Dickie Birds"

Clapping	"A Sailor Went to Sea" "Down Down Baby" "Mary Mack" "Miss Susie" "Miss Lucy" "Pat-a-cake" "Pretty Little Dutch Girl" "Pease Porridge Hot"

Counting	"Duck, duck, goose" "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" "This Old Man" "Tinker, Tailor"

Finger- plays	"Five Little Monkeys" "Itsy Bitsy Spider" "Little Robin Redbreast" "Round and round the garden" "This Little Piggy"

Games	"London Bridge" "The Muffin Man" "Mulberry Bush" "Oranges and Lemons" "Ring a Ring o' Roses" "The Farmer in the Dell"

Riddle	"As I was going to St Ives"

Lullabies	"Hush, Little Baby" "Rock-a-bye Baby"

Rounds	"Ding Dong Bell" "Frère Jacques" "Kookaburra" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "Scotland's Burning" "Three Blind Mice"

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