COMPOSER : McLeod & Burns

ARRANGER : David Beal

Brass Band Sheet Music - Full Score and Parts

A tongue in cheek arrangement and an audience foot-tapper.

A tune about taking off your hat based on a poem by Robbie Burns

Cock Up Your Beaver is a song and poem by Robert Burns, written in 1792.  It is written in Scottish dialect and the beaver refers to a gentleman's hat in an era when all high quality men's hats were made of felted beaver fur.

When first my brave Johnnie lad came to this town,

He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown,

But now he has gotten a hat and a feather

Hey, brave Johnnie lad, cock up your beaver!

Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush!

We'll over the border and gie them a brush:

There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour

Hey, brave Johnnie lad, cock up your beaver!

ISMN - 9790570000104