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MY SILLY AULD MAN. AKA and see "Before I was Married" "Billy O'Rourke's Jig (1)," "Black Rogue (1)," "Come Under My Plaidie," "Johnny MacGill," "Johnnie McGill," "Johnnie MacGill." Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB and variation sets. The tune appears in the 1794 collection of Capt. Robert Riddell (1755-1794) of Glenriddell, Laird of Friar's Carse, near Dumfries, Scotland. He was a friend of his neighbor, Robert Burns (1759-1796, who at the time was a tenant farmer), and the poet visited Friars' Carse frequently, describing the estate as 'positively the most beautiful spot in the lowlands of Scotland'. A cordial relationship continued until they had a falling out the year before Riddell issued his publication; it was over a drunken incident at Friar's Carse, although details remain mysterious.

Robert Riddell, from a frontispiece drawing in one of the manuscript volumes in library of the Society of Antiquaries, London

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Riddell (Collection of Scotch Galwegian Border Tunes), 1794; pp. 10-13.

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-'''MY SILLY AULD MAN.''' Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB and variation sets. The tune appears in the 1794 collection of Capt. Robert Riddell (1755-1794) of Glenriddell, Laird of Friar's Carse, near Dumfries, Scotland. He was a friend of his neighbor, Robert Burns (1759-1796, who at the time was a tenant farmer), and the poet visited Friars' Carse frequently, describing the estate as 'positively the most beautiful spot in the lowlands of Scotland'. A cordial relationship continued until they had a falling out the year before Riddell issued his publication; it was over a drunken incident at Friar's Carse, although details remain mysterious.
+'''MY SILLY AULD MAN.''' AKA and see "[[Before I was Married]]" "[[Billy O'Rourke's Jig (1)]]," "[[Black Rogue (1)]]," "[[Come Under My Plaidie]]," "[[Johnny MacGill]]," "[[Johnnie McGill]]," "[[Johnnie MacGill]]." Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB and variation sets. The tune appears in the 1794 collection of Capt. Robert Riddell (1755-1794) of Glenriddell, Laird of Friar's Carse, near Dumfries, Scotland. He was a friend of his neighbor, Robert Burns (1759-1796, who at the time was a tenant farmer), and the poet visited Friars' Carse frequently, describing the estate as 'positively the most beautiful spot in the lowlands of Scotland'. A cordial relationship continued until they had a falling out the year before Riddell issued his publication; it was over a drunken incident at Friar's Carse, although details remain mysterious.
 [[File:riddell.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Robert Riddell, from a frontispiece drawing in one of the manuscript volumes in library of the Society of Antiquaries, London]]
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