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| '''ON ETTRICK BANKS.''' Scottish, Air (4/4 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Ettrick is a river in Selkirkshire, and flows northeast for thirty miles (during which it receives the Yarrow) before it empties into the Tweed near Melrose. '''Tait's Edinburgh Magazine''' printed an article on "Scottish Rivers--The Tweed" (vol. 14, 1887, p. 506), which mentions the Ettrick, and remarked:
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| [[File:ettrick.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The Ettrick at Bowhill, by Hugh Thompson (Lang & Lang, "Highways and Byways of the Border", 1913).]]
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| ''The Ettrick rises, as we are told, from among a few rushes, between Loch-fell and Capel-fell,''
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| ''on the south side of a range of hills, which may be called "the back-bone of the country," at''
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| ''a point two miles above Potburn, which is said to be the highest situated farm-house above the''
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| ''sea in the south of Scotland. Mr. Staddart tells us that "Ettrick abounds in nice trout,''
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| ''weighing, on the average, a quarter of a pound, but I have killed them occasionally, below''
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| ''Thirlestane, upwards of a pound, and recollect seeing one taken there nearly three times that''
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| ''weight. From the burns which empty themselves in the upper districts, I have known my friend''
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| ''John Wilson, Jun., of Elbray, to capture, with the worm, twelve dozen in the course of an''
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| ''forenoon. Sea-trout, both the whitling and the bull species, ascend the Ettrick in November,''
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| ''sometimes in great numbers--as many as three score have been slaughtered, by means of the''
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| ''leister, in one night, out of a single pool. The true salmon killed on an occasion of this sort''
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| "On Ettrick Banks" is an song and air by an unknown composer. The lyric in Allan Ramsay's '''Tea Table Miscellany''' of 1724, although he did not claim it, and the melody was inserted into the '''Orpheus Caledonius''' (1725), along with the same stanzas that later appeared in Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum'''. Ramsay's lyric begins:
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| ''On Ettrick banks, in a summer night,''<br>
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| ''At glowming when the sheep drave hame,''<br>
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| ''I met my lassie braw and tight,''<br>
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| ''While wading, barefoot, a' her lane:''<br>
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| ''My heart grew light, I ran, I flang''<br>
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| ''My arms about her lily-neck,''<br>
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| ''And kiss'd and clapp'd her there fou lang;''<br>
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| ''My words they were na mony, feck.''<br>
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| Robert Burns reworked the old song for his own "On Ettrick Banks," which he sent to Mrs. Stewart of Stair.
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| ''On Ettrick banks on a summer's night,''<br>
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| ''At gloaming when the sheep drove hame,''<br>
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| ''I met my lassie bra' and tight''<br>
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| ''Cam' wading barefoot, a' her lane.''<br>
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| ''My heart grew light, I ran, I flang''<br>
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| ''My arms about her lily neck,''<br>
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| ''And kiss'd and clap'd her there fu' lang''<br>
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| ''My words there were na' mony feck.''<br>
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| Burns also used the melody for his song "The Bonny Lass o' Ballochmyle," written as he walked the banks of the River Ayr for Wilhelmina Alexander. Franz Joseph Haydn composed an arrangement of the song (H 31a/151). The tune is in Oswald's '''Curious Collection Scots Tunes''' (1740, 28), McGibbon's '''Scots Tunes''' (1742, 23), Oswald's '''Caledonian Pocket Companion''' (1751, I'll. 16), Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' (1787, No. 81), and every important collection of vocal music of the latter half of the eighteenth century.
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| ''Printed sources'': Graham ('''Songs of Scotland'''), 1887; pp. 102-03. Neil ('''The Scots Fiddle'''), 1991; No. 39, p. 50.
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