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Tune Annotations:	'''CARLE AN' THE KING COME'''. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (McGibbon): AA'BB' (Gow). This melody appears in [[wikipedia:Allan Ramsay{{!}}Allan Ramsay]]'s pastoral play '''The Gentle Shepherd''', published 1725, as the vehicle for Song IX, "[[Peggy now the King has come]]." Although the stage production predates Gay's famous '''Beggar's Opera''' (1729), it was not performed until after Gay's work became a hit in London. Ramsay also used the tune for a song called "The promis'd Joy" in his '''Tea Table Miscellany''' (1724), beginning: "When we meet again, Phelly"[https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105688966]. In the Shetland Islands the tune is known as "Carle as da King Come." A ''carle'' in Scottish usage is a 'bloke', or common man, but the song itself (of which there are many versions) is an old Jacobean air, a pean to the house Stuart. <blockquote>''Carle, an the king come--''<br>''Carle, an the king come,''<br>''Thou shalt dance, and I will sing,''<br>''Carle, an the king come.''<br>''An somebody were come again,''<br>''Then somebody maun cross the main;''<br>''And ev'ry man shall hae his ain,''<br>''Carle, an the king come.'' ....... [Cunningham, '''Songs of Scotland''', 1825]<br></blockquote> Poet Robert Burns 'improved' the song, and contributed the second stanza. The antiquarian Stenhouse was of the opinion that the air of "O'er/[[Over the Moor among the Heather]]" was only a modification of "Carle, an' the King come." George Farquhar Garham ('''The Songs of Scotland''', 1861, p. 91) remarked that Sir Walter Scott wrote a humorous poem on the occasion of King George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822, commencing "Carle, now the King's come."
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Printed sources:	Gow ('''Complete Repository, Part 4'''), 1817; p. 20. Johnson ('''Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3'''), 1792; Song 239, p. 248. Manson ('''Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book, vol. 2'''), 1846; p. 53. McGibbon ('''Scots Tunes, book III'''), 1762; p. 53. Oswald ('''Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6'''), 1760; p. 15. Alexander Stuart ('''Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection'''), Edinburgh, c. 1724; pp. 16-17.
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