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PARTING KISS, THE. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title is from Robert Dodsley's popular collection Colin's Kisses (1742), where "The Parting Kiss" begins:
One kind Kiss before we part,
Drop a Tear, and bid Adieu;
Tho' we sever, my fond Heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.
Scottish poet Robert Burns adapted Dodslwy words for his poem beginning: "Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever!"
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; No. 187, p. 69.
Recorded sources: