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'''HE'S O'ER THE HILLS'''. Scottish, | '''HE'S O'ER THE HILLS'''. AKA - "He's o'er the hills I lo'e weel." Scottish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song was printed in George Farquhar Graham's '''Songs of Scotland''' (1848, p. 70), who remarks: "A modern Jacobite song--very popular of late years. Neither the author of the words nor the author of the music is known." The lyric begins: | ||
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<br> | ''He's o'er the hills I lo'e weel,''<br> | ||
''He's o'er the hills we daurna name;''<br> | |||
''He's o'er the hills ayont Dumblane,''<br> | |||
''Wha soon will get his welcome hame.''<br> | |||
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''Printed sources'': Kerr ('''Merry Melodies'''), | ''Printed sources'': Davie ('''Davie's Caledonian Repository'''), Aberdeen, 1829-30; p. 19. Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 3'''), c. 1880's; No. 295, p. 32. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Greentrax CDTRAX 184, "The Occasionals: Live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen" (1999). </font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Greentrax CDTRAX 184, "The Occasionals: Live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen" (1999). </font> | ||
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HE'S O'ER THE HILLS. AKA - "He's o'er the hills I lo'e weel." Scottish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song was printed in George Farquhar Graham's Songs of Scotland (1848, p. 70), who remarks: "A modern Jacobite song--very popular of late years. Neither the author of the words nor the author of the music is known." The lyric begins:
He's o'er the hills I lo'e weel,
He's o'er the hills we daurna name;
He's o'er the hills ayont Dumblane,
Wha soon will get his welcome hame.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Davie (Davie's Caledonian Repository), Aberdeen, 1829-30; p. 19. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880's; No. 295, p. 32.
Recorded sources: Greentrax CDTRAX 184, "The Occasionals: Live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen" (1999).