Annotation:O This is no My Ain Lassie

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O THIS IS NO MY AIN LASSIE. AKA - "This is no my ain house." Scottish, Air and Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title of a 1795 song by poet Robert Burns, set to the tune of "This is no my ain house."

I see a form, I see a face,
Ye weel may wi' the fairest place;
It wants, to me, the witching grace,
The kind love that's in her e'e.

Chorus:
This is no my ain lassie,
Fair tho, the lassie be;
Weel ken I my ain lassie,
Kind love is in her e're.

The tune was entered into the 1838 English music manuscript book of musician William Irwin as "Caledonian Hunt," set as a strathspey.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cameron (Cameron's Selection of Violin Music), Glasgow, 1859; p. 31. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880’s; No. 367, p. 41.

Recorded sources: Decca 14028 (78 RPM), Colin Boyd (1934). Parlophone PMD1012, Jimmy Shand - "Scottish Country Dances In Strict Tempo No. 1."

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