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'''O I HAE SEEN THE ROSES BLAW.''' AKA - "[[Roses Blaw (The)]]." English, Scottish; Song Tune (6/8 time) and Jig. A Mixolydian (Gunn): G Mixolydian (Stokoe & Bruce): G Major (Raven). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stokoe & Bruce): AABB (Raven). Bayard (1981) finds this tune to be the ancestor of his Pennsylvania-collected "[[Oho Oho I've Found You Out]]."  The lyric, as printed in '''The Musical Banquet of Songs''' (1790), begins:
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''O! I hae seen the roses blaw,''<br>
''The heather bloom the broom and a',''<br>
''The lily spring as white as snaw,''<br>
''Wi' a' their native splendor.''<br>
''Yet Mary's sweeter on the green,''<br>
''As fresh an' fair as Flora queen,''<br>
''Mair stately than the branching bean,''<br>
''Or like the ivy slender.''
''In nature like a summer day,''<br>
''Transcendent as a sunny ray,''<br>
''Her shape and air is frank an' gay,''<br>
''Wi' a' that's sweet an' tender.''<br>
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''Printed sources'': Bruce & Stokoe ('''Northumbrian Minstrelsy'''), 1882; pp. 84-85. William Gunn ('''The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes'''), Glasgow, 1848; p. 78. Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; p. 114.
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