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'''I HA'E LAID A HERRIN' IN SA'T'''. Scottish, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This is the melody traditionally used for the country dance Flora Macdonald’s Fancy. The song appears in Gavin Greig's '''Scots Minstrelsie''', vol. | '''I HA'E LAID A HERRIN' IN SA'T'''. Scottish, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This is the melody traditionally used for the country dance Flora Macdonald’s Fancy. The song appears in Gavin Greig's '''Scots Minstrelsie''', vol. 1 (1893), wherein the words are credited to James Tytler, set to an "Old Melody." | ||
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Revision as of 20:32, 25 February 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
I HA'E LAID A HERRIN' IN SA'T. Scottish, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This is the melody traditionally used for the country dance Flora Macdonald’s Fancy. The song appears in Gavin Greig's Scots Minstrelsie, vol. 1 (1893), wherein the words are credited to James Tytler, set to an "Old Melody."
I hae laid a herrin' i' saut,
Lass, gin ye lo'e me, tell me noo;
I hae brew'd a forpit o' maut,
An' I canna come ilka day to woo.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 316, p. 35.
Recorded sources: