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PICKLE AIT-MEAL, A. AKA - "Cogie o' Yill (A)." Scottish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The melody was composed by Edinburgh violinist biography:Robert Mackintosh ('Red Rob', c. 1745-1807) and set to lyrics by Andrew Shirrefs (1762-1807, who also wrote the pastoral comedy, Jamie and Bess). He was a well-known musician in Edinburgh up until 1802, when he left Scotland to live in London, where he taught. Mackintosh died there in February, 1807. Emmerson (1971) notes that it was said that Mackintosh "was of an irascible disposition and readily gave offense to other members of (his) orchestra." The song was printed in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (Song 545), and begins:

A cogie of ale and a pickle ait meal,
And a dainty wee drappy of whisky
Was our fore fathers dose to swiel down their brose
And mak' them blythe, cheery an' frisky.
Then hey for the cogie and hey for the ale,
And hey for the whisky and hey for the meal;
When mix'd a' the gether they do unco weel,
To mak' a chield cheery and briskay.

The Ballad Index notes that a clear related song, if not derivatives of the other, is "The Scottish Coggie o' Brose" [Broadside Bodleian, 2806 c 11 (81)].

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (Scots Musical Museum, vol. IV), 1792; Song 545, p. 564.

Recorded sources:

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-'''PICKLE AIT-MEAL, A.''' Scottish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle).  The melody was composed by Edinburgh violinist [[biography:Robert Mackintosh]] ('Red Rob', c. 1745-1807) and set to lyrics by Andrew Shirrefs (1762-1807, who also wrote the pastoral comedy, '''Jamie and Bess'''). He was a well-known musician in Edinburgh up until 1802, when he left Scotland to live in London. Emmerson (1971) notes that it was said that Mackintosh "was of an irascible disposition and readily gave offense to other members of (his) orchestra." The song was printed in James Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' (Song 545), and begins:
+'''PICKLE AIT-MEAL, A.''' AKA - "Cogie o' Yill (A)." Scottish, Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle).  The melody was composed by Edinburgh violinist [[biography:Robert Mackintosh]] ('Red Rob', c. 1745-1807) and set to lyrics by Andrew Shirrefs (1762-1807, who also wrote the pastoral comedy, '''Jamie and Bess'''). He was a well-known musician in Edinburgh up until 1802, when he left Scotland to live in London, where he taught. Mackintosh died there in February, 1807. Emmerson (1971) notes that it was said that Mackintosh "was of an irascible disposition and readily gave offense to other members of (his) orchestra." The song was printed in James Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' (Song 545), and begins:
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 ''A cogie of ale and a pickle ait meal,''<br>
 ''And a dainty wee drappy of whisky ''<br>
-''was our fore fathers dose to swiel down their brose''<br>
+''Was our fore fathers dose to swiel down their brose''<br>
-''and mak' them blythe cheery an' frisky.<br>''
+''And mak' them blythe, cheery an' frisky.<br>''
 ''Then hey for the cogie and hey for the ale,''<br>
-''and hey for the whisky and hey for the meal;''<br>
+''And hey for the whisky and hey for the meal;''<br>
-''when mix'd a' the gether they do unco weel,''<br>
+''When mix'd a' the gether they do unco weel,''<br>
 ''To mak' a chield cheery and briskay.''<br>
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+The Ballad Index notes that a clear related song, if not derivatives of the other, is "The Scottish Coggie o' Brose" [Broadside Bodleian, 2806 c 11 (81)].
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-''Printed sources'': Johnson ('''Scots Musical Museum, vol. IV'''), ; Song 545, p. 564.
+''Printed sources'': Johnson ('''Scots Musical Museum, vol. IV'''), 1792; Song 545, p. 564.
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