

Insteid, Burns gied the sang tae Scots lilter Pietro Urbani, that set it furth in his Scots Songs. Houe'er, he wrate a freend that Thomson an him didna gree on the merits o thon teep o sang: "Whit tae me appears tae be the semple an the will, tae him, an I jalouse tae ye an aw, wuill be leukit on as the ludicrous an the daftlike."

Burns ettelt that A Red, Red Rose shoud be setten furth as pairt o Thomson's ingaitherin.

He wrocht on this project fer James Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803) an for George Thomson's five-vollum A Select Collection of Orginal Scottish Airs for the Voice. In aw, he haed a haund in hainin ower three hunder sangs, the maist kenspeckle airgiably bein Auld Lang Syne. Oreegins o the sang īurns wrocht for the hintmaist ten year o his life for tae uphaud tradeetional Scots sangs for times tae come. ' A Red, Red Rose ' is a Scots sang bi Robert Burns that he wrate in 1794, based on tradeetional soorces.
