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|f_annotation='''COUNTRY LASS, THE. ''' Scottish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Country Lass" is a Scottish song published by poet and playwright [[Wikipedia:Allan_Ramsay_(poet)]] (1686-1758), who included it in his '''Tea-Table Miscellany''' (p. 178). The English verses are by Martin Parker, which Ramsay edited with variations. | |f_annotation='''COUNTRY LASS, THE. ''' Scottish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Country Lass" is a Scottish song published by poet and playwright [[Wikipedia:Allan_Ramsay_(poet)]] (1686-1758), who included it in his '''Tea-Table Miscellany''' (p. 178). The English verses are by Martin Parker, which Ramsay edited with variations. "The Country Lass" was directed to be sung to an earlier tune, "The Mother Beguiled/Beguiles the Daughter". A variation of the tune is also used for "[[Sally in our Alley]]," although when first written by playwright John Carey, he also composed an original air for it. This was supplanted (around 1760, according to antiquarian William Chappell) by the older "Country Lass" tune, which is described in some instances as "a new northern tune". | ||
|f_printed_sources=<span>William Thomson ('''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. II'''), 1733; No. 38, p. 154.</span><span></span> | |f_printed_sources=<span>William Thomson ('''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. II'''), 1733; No. 38, p. 154.</span><span></span> | ||
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COUNTRY LASS, THE. Scottish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Country Lass" is a Scottish song published by poet and playwright Wikipedia:Allan_Ramsay_(poet) (1686-1758), who included it in his Tea-Table Miscellany (p. 178). The English verses are by Martin Parker, which Ramsay edited with variations. "The Country Lass" was directed to be sung to an earlier tune, "The Mother Beguiled/Beguiles the Daughter". A variation of the tune is also used for "Sally in our Alley," although when first written by playwright John Carey, he also composed an original air for it. This was supplanted (around 1760, according to antiquarian William Chappell) by the older "Country Lass" tune, which is described in some instances as "a new northern tune".
