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HILL OF BURNIE, THE. Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A stream is called a burn in Scotland, and burnie is the diminutive. While there is no evidence, it may be possible the tune is associated with Angus Fletcher's song "The lassie o' the glen," which first appeared in several newspapers about the year 1802 or 1803, just prior to John Gow's 1804 reissue of John & Andrew Gow's c. 1795 Favorite Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels. It was written to a Gaelic air, "Cum an Fhiasag ribeach bhuam".

Beneath a hill, 'mang birken bushes,
⁠By a burnie's dimpilt linn,
I told my love, with artless blushes,
⁠To the lassie o' the Glen.
⁠O the birken bank sae grassy
⁠Hey the burnie's dimpilt linn!
⁠Dear to me's the bonnie lassie
⁠Living in yon rashie glen.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - John Gow (A Favorite Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels), London, c. 1804; p. 14.

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-'''HILL OF BURNIE, THE.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A stream is called a ''burn'' in Scotland, and ''burnie'' is the diminutive. It is possible the tune may be associated with Angus Fletcher's song "The lassie o' the glen," which first appeared in several newspapers about the year 1802 or 1803, just prior to John Gow's 1804 reissue of John & Andrew Gow's c. 1795 '''Favorite Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels'''. It was written to a Gaelic air, "Cum an Fhiasag ribeach bhuam".
+'''HILL OF BURNIE, THE.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A stream is called a ''burn'' in Scotland, and ''burnie'' is the diminutive. While there is no evidence, it may be possible the tune is associated with Angus Fletcher's song "The lassie o' the glen," which first appeared in several newspapers about the year 1802 or 1803, just prior to John Gow's 1804 reissue of John & Andrew Gow's c. 1795 '''Favorite Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels'''. It was written to a Gaelic air, "Cum an Fhiasag ribeach bhuam".
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