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'''BALOW MY BOY.''' AKA - "Balow, my boy, lie still and sleep." Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A | '''BALOW MY BOY.''' AKA - "Balow, my boy, lie still and sleep," "[[Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament]]." Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A ballad with ancient roots, much anthologized from the 18th century on. A version was entered into '''Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book''', c. 1656. It also was published in William Thomson's '''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2''' (1733) and James Oswald's '''Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 1''' (1760). | ||
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BALOW MY BOY. AKA - "Balow, my boy, lie still and sleep," "Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament." Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A ballad with ancient roots, much anthologized from the 18th century on. A version was entered into Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book, c. 1656. It also was published in William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2 (1733) and James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 1 (1760).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 1), 1760; p. 25. Thomson (Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2), 1733; p. 40.
Recorded sources: