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AS I CAME O'ER THE CAIRNEY MOUNT. Scottish, Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song appears in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1787, p. 480), a sanitized version of an older and more bawdy song (which appears in Burns' The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799). The 'Museum' version goes:

As I came o'er the Cairney mount
And down amang the blooming heather,
Kindly stood the milkin-shiel
To shelter frae the stormy weather.

O my bonie Highland lad,
My winsome, weelfar'd Highland laddie;
Wha wad mind the wind and rain,
Sae weel row'd in his tartan plaidie.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 425, p. 164.

Recorded sources:

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-'''AS I CAME O'ER THE CAIRNEY MOUNT.''' Scottish, Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.
+'''AS I CAME O'ER THE CAIRNEY MOUNT.''' Scottish, Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song appears in James Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' (1787, p. 480), a sanitized version of an older and more bawdy song (which appears in Burns' '''The Merry Muses of Caledonia''' (1799). The 'Museum' version goes:
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+''As I came o'er the Cairney mount ''<br>
+''And down amang the blooming heather,'' <br>
+''Kindly stood the milkin-shiel ''<br>
+''To shelter frae the stormy weather.''<br>
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+''O my bonie Highland lad,''<br>
+''My winsome, weelfar'd Highland laddie;''<br>
+''Wha wad mind the wind and rain,'' <br>
+''Sae weel row'd in his tartan plaidie.''<br>
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