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'''SLEEPY BODIE.''' Scottish, Air and Jig (6/8 time). F Major (Gow, Thomson): A Major (McGibbon). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Thomson): AABB (Gow): AABBCCDD (McGibbon). The song was | '''SLEEPY BODIE.''' Scottish, Air and Jig (6/8 time). F Major (Gow, Thomson): A Major (McGibbon). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Thomson): AABB (Gow): AABBCCDD (McGibbon). "Sleepy body, drowsy body" is a poem in Allan Ramsay's '''The Tea-table Miscellany; or, Pills to Purge Melancholy''' (1721), in which the first verse is first given in Latin. The music to the song was printed in Scottish singer and collector William Thompson's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson_(musicologist)] (c. 1695-1753) in his '''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2''' (1733). There are only two stanzas to the song, as printed by Ramsay and Thomson: | ||
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''O sleepy body, drowsy body,''<br> | ''O sleepy body, and drowsy body,''<br> | ||
''Wiltuna waken | ''O Wiltuna waken and turn thee:''<br> | ||
''To drivel and draunt, while I | ''To drivel and draunt, while I sigh and gaunt''<br> | ||
''Gives me good reason to scorn thee.''<br> | ''Gives me good reason to scorn thee.''<br> | ||
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''Thou turns sleepy and blind,''<br> | ''Thou turns sleepy and blind,''<br> | ||
''And snoters and snores far frae me, ''<br> | ''And snoters and snores far frae me, ''<br> | ||
''Wae light on they face, | ''Wae light on they face, thy drowsy embrace,''<br> | ||
''Is enough to gar me betray thee.''<br> | ''Is enough to gar me betray thee.''<br> | ||
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Revision as of 02:55, 11 December 2019
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SLEEPY BODIE. Scottish, Air and Jig (6/8 time). F Major (Gow, Thomson): A Major (McGibbon). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Thomson): AABB (Gow): AABBCCDD (McGibbon). "Sleepy body, drowsy body" is a poem in Allan Ramsay's The Tea-table Miscellany; or, Pills to Purge Melancholy (1721), in which the first verse is first given in Latin. The music to the song was printed in Scottish singer and collector William Thompson's [1] (c. 1695-1753) in his Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2 (1733). There are only two stanzas to the song, as printed by Ramsay and Thomson:
O sleepy body, and drowsy body,
O Wiltuna waken and turn thee:
To drivel and draunt, while I sigh and gaunt
Gives me good reason to scorn thee.
When though shouldst be kind,
Thou turns sleepy and blind,
And snoters and snores far frae me,
Wae light on they face, thy drowsy embrace,
Is enough to gar me betray thee.
See also the cognate duple-time Annotation:Merry Plowman (The) for more.