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|f_annotation='''CARLE HE CAME O'ER THE CRAFT, THE'''. Scottish; Air, Reel or Strathspey (whole or cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow, Lowe, McLachlan): AABB (Aird, Petrie): AABB' (Athole): AABBCCD (John Gow). A ''carle'' in Scottish usage is a 'bloke' or common man. | |f_annotation='''CARLE HE CAME O'ER THE CRAFT, THE'''. Scottish; Air, Reel or Strathspey (whole or cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow, Lowe, McLachlan): AABB (Aird, Petrie): AABB' (Athole): AABBCCD (John Gow). A ''carle'' in Scottish usage is a 'bloke' or common man, and is often associated with peasant farming. A croft is small parcel of arable land, and a crofter is the individual with tenure and use of the land which often includes the crofter's dwelling<ref>The word croft is West Germanic in etymology, and is now most familiar in Scotland, most crofts being in the Scottish Highlands and Islands area.</ref>. | ||
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"The carle he cam' ower the craft" is a song by poet Allan Ramsay, printed in his '''Tea-Table Miscellany'''. Other early versions of the melody appear in John Watts' '''Musical Miscellany, vol 3''' (London, 1730, p. 110) and William Thomson's '''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 1''' (London, 1733). Dance settings of the tune appear in Scottish musician and dancing master David Young's '''MacFarlan Manuscript''' (c. 1740, No. 11), Neil Stewart's '''Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances''' (Edinburgh, 1761), James Aird's '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, vol 1''' (Glasgow, 1782), and Wilson's '''Companion to the Ball Room''' (London, 1816). Lyrics to the song version begin: | |||
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CARLE HE CAME O'ER THE CRAFT, THE. Scottish; Air, Reel or Strathspey (whole or cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow, Lowe, McLachlan): AABB (Aird, Petrie): AABB' (Athole): AABBCCD (John Gow). A carle in Scottish usage is a 'bloke' or common man, and is often associated with peasant farming. A croft is small parcel of arable land, and a crofter is the individual with tenure and use of the land which often includes the crofter's dwelling[1].
"The carle he cam' ower the craft" is a song by poet Allan Ramsay, printed in his Tea-Table Miscellany. Other early versions of the melody appear in John Watts' Musical Miscellany, vol 3 (London, 1730, p. 110) and William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 1 (London, 1733). Dance settings of the tune appear in Scottish musician and dancing master David Young's MacFarlan Manuscript (c. 1740, No. 11), Neil Stewart's Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances (Edinburgh, 1761), James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, vol 1 (Glasgow, 1782), and Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816). Lyrics to the song version begin:
The carle he came o'er the croft,
And his beard new shav'n,
He look'd at me, as he been daft,
The carle trows that I wad hae him.
Hout awa' I winna hae him!
Na, forsooth, I winna hae him!
For a' his beard new shav'n,
Ne'er a bit will I hae him. (Cunningham, Songs of Scotland, 1825)
The country dance version printed by London publisher T. Straight (1783, p. 5) is congruent in the second strain, and, while the first strain has a harmonic resemblance to other versions, it differs melodically. See also the similar "Port a' Bhodaich." John Gow printed a strathspey version in four parts that he credited to 'Lord MacDonald' (Lord Alexander MacDonald, 1744-1795 for whom see "annotation:Lord MacDonald (4)). In view that the tune was extant in the 1730's and 40's it is unlikely that MacDonald composed it, but he may have 'improved' it.
- ↑ The word croft is West Germanic in etymology, and is now most familiar in Scotland, most crofts being in the Scottish Highlands and Islands area.