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The tune appears in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (vol. 8, 1760, p. 26) as "The King of France He Run a Race", described in '''The Songs of Robert Burns''' as "an unintelligible Jacobite song". Burns used the melody for his song "Amang the trees, where humming bees," the second stanza of which goes: | |||
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<br> | ''But there cam a fiddler out o' Fife,''<br> | ||
''A blink beyond Balwearie, O,''<br> | |||
''And he has coft a gully knife, ''<br> | |||
''To gie the Whigs a bleary O,''<br> | |||
''This fiddler cam wi' sword and lance, ''<br> | |||
''And a' his links o' leary, O, ''<br> | |||
''To learn the Whigs a morice dance,''<br> | |||
''That they lov'd wondrous deary, O.''<br> | |||
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LADY DOLL SINCLAIR. AKA and see "King of France (The)," "Matt Molloy's (3)," "Matt Peoples' (2)," "Miss Henny MacKenzie," "Miss Hetty McKenzie." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 1). See also related untitled Irish reels in Breathnach CRÉ II (No. 237) and CRÉ III (No. 121), and an untitled Highland in the Feldman & O'Doherty's Northern Fiddler (1979, p. 82b).
The tune appears in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (vol. 8, 1760, p. 26) as "The King of France He Run a Race", described in The Songs of Robert Burns as "an unintelligible Jacobite song". Burns used the melody for his song "Amang the trees, where humming bees," the second stanza of which goes:
But there cam a fiddler out o' Fife,
A blink beyond Balwearie, O,
And he has coft a gully knife,
To gie the Whigs a bleary O,
This fiddler cam wi' sword and lance,
And a' his links o' leary, O,
To learn the Whigs a morice dance,
That they lov'd wondrous deary, O.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 1. Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), vol. 4; 19. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 242.
Recorded sources: Temple TP034, The Battlefield Band - "Home Ground" (1989).
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