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'''PATIE'S WEDDING.''' Scottish, Air and Slip Jig (9/8 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Patie's Wedding" was a ballad [Roud Folksong Index S218312] popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries, printed in songsters, chapbooks and broadsides. The words are contained in David Herd & George Paton's '''Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., vol. 2''' (Edinburgh, 1776). It begins: | '''PATIE'S WEDDING.''' Scottish, Air and Slip Jig (9/8 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Patie's Wedding" was a ballad [Roud Folksong Index S218312] popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries, printed in songsters, chapbooks and broadsides. The words are contained in David Herd & George Paton's '''Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., vol. 2''' (Edinburgh, 1776). It begins: | ||
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As Patie cam up frae the glen,<br> | |||
Driving his wethers before him,<br> | |||
He met bonnie Meg ganging hame,<br> | |||
Whase beauty was like for to smore him.<br> | |||
O dinna ye ken, bonnie Meg,<br> | |||
That you and I's gaun to be married;<br> | |||
I rather had broken my leg,<br> | |||
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''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish | ''Printed sources'': | ||
Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5'''), 1801; No. 81, p. 32. | |||
Johnson ('''Scots Musical Museum, vol. 4'''), 1792; Song 383, pp. 396–397. | |||
Crosby ('''Caledonian Musical Repository'''), 1811; pp. 228–232. | |||
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PATIE'S WEDDING. Scottish, Air and Slip Jig (9/8 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Patie's Wedding" was a ballad [Roud Folksong Index S218312] popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries, printed in songsters, chapbooks and broadsides. The words are contained in David Herd & George Paton's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1776). It begins:
As Patie cam up frae the glen,
Driving his wethers before him,
He met bonnie Meg ganging hame,
Whase beauty was like for to smore him.
O dinna ye ken, bonnie Meg,
That you and I's gaun to be married;
I rather had broken my leg,
Before sic a bargain miscarried.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), 1801; No. 81, p. 32.
Johnson (Scots Musical Museum, vol. 4), 1792; Song 383, pp. 396–397.
Crosby (Caledonian Musical Repository), 1811; pp. 228–232.
Recorded sources: