Annotation:Ca' Hawkie

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CA' HAWKIE (THROUGH THE WATER). AKA and see "Drive Hakky," "Lord Elphinston." Scottish, English; Strathspey, Reel and/or Air (2/4 time). England; Cumbria, Northumberland. B Flat Major & G Minor (Bruce & Stokoe): A Minor (Athole, Kerr, Martin). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Bruce & Stokoe): AABB (Martin): AABBCCDD (Kerr). 'Hawkie' is pet name in Scots dialect for a cow with a white face.

Ca' Hawkie, ca' Hawkie,
Ca' Hawkie through the water,
Hawkie is a sweir beast,
And Hawkie winna wade the water.
Hawkie is a bonny cow,
Though she's loth to wade the water;
While she waits the work'll stand,
So ca' Hawkie through the water. (Bruce & Stokoe)

"Lord Elphinston" is given as an alternate title by Stewart-Robertson in the Athole Collection, but it is not Ducan MacIntyre's strathspey "Lord Elphinstone."

Source for notated version: fiddler and teacher Jean-Ann Callender (Aberdeen) [Martin].

Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 121. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 70, p. 10. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 12. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 54.

Recorded sources: Philo FI 2018, "Jean Carignan Plays the Music of Coleman, Morrison & Skinner" (played as a reel).

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