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'''LORD EGLINTOUN'S AULD MAN.''' Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. James Hogg adapted the melody as the vehicle for a song in his '''Forest Minstrel''' (1810). | '''LORD EGLINTOUN'S AULD MAN.''' Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. James Hogg adapted the melody as the vehicle for a song of the same title in his '''Forest Minstrel''' (1810). It begins: | ||
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<br> | ''The auld guidman came hame at night''<br> | ||
''Sair wearied wi' the way;''<br> | |||
''His looks were like an evening bright,''<br> | |||
''His hair was siller grey.''<br> | |||
''He spak o' days lang past an' gane,''<br> | |||
''When life beat high in every vein;''<br> | |||
''When he was foremost on the plain''<br> | |||
''On every blithesome day.''<br> | |||
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LORD EGLINTOUN'S AULD MAN. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. James Hogg adapted the melody as the vehicle for a song of the same title in his Forest Minstrel (1810). It begins:
The auld guidman came hame at night
Sair wearied wi' the way;
His looks were like an evening bright,
His hair was siller grey.
He spak o' days lang past an' gane,
When life beat high in every vein;
When he was foremost on the plain
On every blithesome day.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; p. 4. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 157, p.18. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 108.
Recorded sources:
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