For my choir audition this fall, I'm going to sing "A Man's A Man For A' That," by Robert Burns (as if you didn't know).

Of course, I had a conundrum: how to get the sheet music for as little as possible? I don't really want to buy a whole music book for just one song, you know, and paying $5 for a download seems a bit extravagant.

So …

I went to the Electric Scotland site and found scans of The Scots Minstrelsie (from eighteen hundred and something or other), which contained "A Man's A Man."

I copied the pictures of the music and entered it into Finale, and fiddled around with it a bit to make it easier to sing, added all the lyrics, and generally had a bit of a time with it.

For your bemusement and possible enjoyment, here is the result: