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A Man's a Man for A' That

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covered it on his 1991 album "The Songs of Robert Burns" as "Is There for Honest Poverty"
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played it on their 1993 album "Honest Poverty" -an album title also drawn from the song.
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in January 1795. It was subsequently published anonymously in the August edition of the
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Line by Line Analysis and Examination Of Its Commentary On Modern Global Climate
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A Man's A Man For A' That (Opening of Scottish Parliament) - Sheena Wellington
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Midge Ure performs the Robert Burns song "A Man's a Man for A' That"
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did the same in July 2016. The song was also sung at the funeral of
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monthly. Thomson later included it in the fourth volume of his
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ideas of society, which may be seen as expressing the ideas of
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The song made its first appearance in a letter Burns wrote to
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A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice
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The Poetical Works of Janet Little, The Scotch Milkmaid
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The words "pride o' worth" appear on the crest of the
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Index

Is There for Honest Poverty

Song
Songwriter(s)
Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Scots
English
egalitarian
republicanism
George Thomson
radical
Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs
Sheena Wellington
Scottish Parliament
Midge Ure
Donald Dewar
First Minister of Scotland
"Trotz alledem"
de
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Revolutions of 1848
Scottish Qualifications Authority
guinea
hoddin
Earl Robinson
The Corries
The McCalmans
Old Blind Dogs
Paolo Nutini

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