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|f_annotation='''STEER HER UP AND HAD HER GAN.''' AKA - "Stir her up and hold her ganging." AKA and see "[[Stolen Kiss (The)]]." Scottish, Scots Measure (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Charles Gore | |f_annotation='''STEER HER UP AND HAD HER GAN.''' AKA - "Stir her up and hold her ganging." AKA and see "[[Stolen Kiss (The)]]." Scottish, Scots Measure (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Charles Gore gives one explanation for the title "Steer her up and had her gan" as having nautical connection, broadly translating as: "Bring her (the boat) up (to wind) and let (hold) her go(ing)." The tune and title are old and both appear in early manuscript collections: the '''Skene Manuscript''' (c. 1615-20), the '''Guthrie Manuscript''' (c. 1670-1680, p. 299), the '''Gairdyn Manuscript''' (1700-1735), and David Young's '''MacFarlane Manuscript''' (1740, p. 266). It was printed in London in Henry Playford's collections of the late seventeenth century and in particular in his collection of Scottish dance tunes of 1700. | ||
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However, the original may have had bawdy lyrics, sanitized by Robert Burns for Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' as Song 504, "O, Steer Her Up, and Haud Her Gaun." An earlier version was printed by Alan Ramsay in '''Tea Table Miscellany''' (1725), copied by Herd into '''Scots Songs''' (1769, p. 181), however, it is itself thought to be an adaptation (or another attempt to sanitize) an earlier song. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Gow ('''Complete Repository, Part 4'''), 1817; p. 8. McGlashan ('''Collection of Scots Measures'''), 178?; p. 11. Henry Playford ('''A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes''') 1700; No. 14, p. 6. | |f_printed_sources=Gow ('''Complete Repository, Part 4'''), 1817; p. 8. McGlashan ('''Collection of Scots Measures'''), 178?; p. 11. Henry Playford ('''A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes''') 1700; No. 14, p. 6. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=Duo Baroque la Tour - "The Last Time I Came O'er the Moor" (2014). | |f_recorded_sources=Duo Baroque la Tour - "The Last Time I Came O'er the Moor" (2014). | ||
|f_see_also_listing=See entry for related song "The Fadgel Hizzy" at the Ballad Index [https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/LyCr2151.html]<br> | |f_see_also_listing=See entry for related song "The Fadgel Hizzy" at the Ballad Index [https://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/LyCr2151.html]<br> | ||
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STEER HER UP AND HAD HER GAN. AKA - "Stir her up and hold her ganging." AKA and see "Stolen Kiss (The)." Scottish, Scots Measure (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Charles Gore gives one explanation for the title "Steer her up and had her gan" as having nautical connection, broadly translating as: "Bring her (the boat) up (to wind) and let (hold) her go(ing)." The tune and title are old and both appear in early manuscript collections: the Skene Manuscript (c. 1615-20), the Guthrie Manuscript (c. 1670-1680, p. 299), the Gairdyn Manuscript (1700-1735), and David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (1740, p. 266). It was printed in London in Henry Playford's collections of the late seventeenth century and in particular in his collection of Scottish dance tunes of 1700.
The melody was also employed as the vehicle for songs. Cellist-composer James Oswald used the tune for his "Stolen Kiss (The)", song No. 2 in "Colin's Kisses" (1742), set to verses by R. Dodsley. It begins:
On a mossy bank reclin'd.
However, the original may have had bawdy lyrics, sanitized by Robert Burns for Johnson's Scots Musical Museum as Song 504, "O, Steer Her Up, and Haud Her Gaun." An earlier version was printed by Alan Ramsay in Tea Table Miscellany (1725), copied by Herd into Scots Songs (1769, p. 181), however, it is itself thought to be an adaptation (or another attempt to sanitize) an earlier song.
