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This popular melody has been set in a variety of musical forms and genres. The name 'Buffalo' for the New York town derives from the name of a Native American. It was first called Buffalo Creek, becoming simply Buffalo as the town grew.

It has been speculated, however, that the name of the tune/song derives from Erie Canal workers who frequented the prostitutes located on Goose Island, in Buffalo. The tune is widespread in American tradition, though as Samuel Bayard (1944) points out, the song is widely disseminated and is now an 'international melody'.

Curiously, he thinks the air itself probably originated in Germany, but came to America and was assimilated in 'British style'. Instrumental versions, not surprisingly, are more ornate than vocal settings and display much wider variation, as a comparison of the sources listed below will attest. "Version B ('Johnstown Gals') affords a good example of how the influence of common melodic formulae, combined with tendencies toward attaining easy bowing and fingering will modify the outlines of a tune in instrumental tradition.

Version A ('Hagantown Gals') is much like some recorded further south; B is in some ways distinctive...Sets from American tradition are Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs, pp. 288–289; Ford, p. 53; Adam, No. 12; and three play-party versions from Texas in Owens, Swing and Turn, pp. 45, 54, 103. (Bayard, 1944). See also "O Dear Mother My Toes are Sore (3)" for a 6/8 version ('A' part only).

...more at: Buffalo Gals - full Score(s) and Annotations

X:4 T:Buffalo Gals [1] M:2/4 L:1/8 S:Shaw - Cowboy Dances (1943) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F V:1 clef=treble name="4." [V:1] z2 zC|FG AB|dc A2|cB G2|dc A3C| FG AB|dc A>f|ec BG|F3z|| f/f/e dc/c/|d/cB/ A2|c/BA/ G2|d/cB/ A2| f/f/e dc/c/ d/cB/ A>f|ec/c/ BG/G/|F3 z||

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-|f_track=O This Is No My Ain Lassie.mp3
+|f_track=Buffalo_Gals.mp3
-|f_pdf=This is no mine ain House.pdf
+|f_pdf=Buffalo Gals.pdf
-|f_artwork=Lost_Portrait_of_Charles_Edward_Stuart.jpg
+|f_artwork=DOWNTOWN_BUFFALO_LOOKING_NORTH_-_NARA_-_549477_(restored).tif
-|f_tune_name=This is not My Own House
+|f_tune_name=Buffalo Gals
-|f_track_title=This is not My Own House
+|f_track_title=Buffalo_Gals_(1)
 |f_section=X4
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/gillbowman Gill Bowman]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/thepinetreestringband The Pine Tree String Band]
-|f_notes= Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1720 - 1788.
+|f_notes= Downtown Buffalo in 1973, showing the then-Marine Midland Tower, Niagara River and Buffalo's Lower West Side.
-|f_caption=Bonnie Prince Charlie danced to this tune at the house of Lude, near Blair, before the battle of Prestonpans, 1745
+|f_caption=The name 'Buffalo' for the New York town derives from the name of a Native American. It was first called Buffalo Creek, becoming simply Buffalo as the town grew. It has been speculated, however, that the name of the tune/song derives from Erie Canal workers who frequented the prostitutes located on Goose Island, in Buffalo.
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/gillbowman/o-this-is-no-my-ain-lassie Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/thepinetreestringband/buffalo-gals Soundcloud]
 |f_pix=420
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-|f_article=[[This is not My Own House | '''This is not My Own House''']]
+|f_article=[[Buffalo_Gals_(1) | '''Buffalo Gals''']]
-AKA and see "[[This is No My Ain Lassie (2)]]." The reel is an old one, a version of which appears in the Blaikie MS of 1692 as '''Abbeyhills Rant''' <ref>as per James C. Dick, "The Songs of Robert Burns", London, 1903, No. 96.</ref>.
+This popular melody has been set in a variety of musical forms and genres. The name 'Buffalo' for the New York town derives from the name of a Native American. It was first called Buffalo Creek, becoming simply Buffalo as the town grew.
-Bonnie Prince Charlie danced to this tune at the house of Lude, near Blair, before the battle of Prestonpans, 1745 {he won that one} (Marshall monogram, 1845 Collection, and Winstock 1970). Country dance directions to the tune were recovered from the '''Holmain Manuscript''' from Dumfries-shire (c. 1710-1750).
+It has been speculated, however, that the name of the tune/song derives from Erie Canal workers who frequented the prostitutes located on Goose Island, in Buffalo. The tune is widespread in American tradition, though as Samuel Bayard (1944) points out, the song is widely disseminated and is now an 'international melody'.
-The earliest record of the melody under the "ain/own house" title (which may be seen as a set of "[[De'il Stick the Minister (2)]]," is from David Young's '''Duke of Perth Manuscript''' (AKA the '''Drummond Castle Manuscript''') of 1734 (where it is listed as a country dance), and Thomson's '''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2''', 1733.
+Curiously, he thinks the air itself probably originated in Germany, but came to America and was assimilated in 'British style'. Instrumental versions, not surprisingly, are more ornate than vocal settings and display much wider variation, as a comparison of the sources listed below will attest. "Version B ('Johnstown Gals') affords a good example of how the influence of common melodic formulae, combined with tendencies toward attaining easy bowing and fingering will modify the outlines of a tune in instrumental tradition.
-{{break | 3}}
+Version A ('[[Hagantown Gals]]') is much like some recorded further south; B is in some ways distinctive...Sets from American tradition are Lomax, '''American Ballads and Folk Songs''', pp. 288–289; Ford, p. 53; Adam, No. 12; and three play-party versions from Texas in Owens, '''Swing and Turn''', pp. 45, 54, 103. (Bayard, 1944). See also "[[O Dear Mother My Toes are Sore (3)]]" for a 6/8 version ('A' part only).
 }}