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'''HEY, CA' THROUGH'''. Scottish, Air (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Cole): AB (Gatherer): AABB (Kennedy). The song (whose title means ('Hey, work away') appears in John Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' [http://burns.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-499-940-C], vol. 4 (1792, p. 405). The lyric begins: | '''HEY, CA' THROUGH'''. Scottish, Air (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Cole): AB (Gatherer): AABB (Kennedy). The song (whose title means ('Hey, work away') appears in John Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' [http://burns.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-499-940-C], vol. 4 (1792, p. 405). The lyric, which is usually attributed to Robert Burns, begins: | ||
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John Glen (1900) could find no earlier appearance of the melody. | |||
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Revision as of 22:53, 19 October 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
HEY, CA' THROUGH. Scottish, Air (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Cole): AB (Gatherer): AABB (Kennedy). The song (whose title means ('Hey, work away') appears in John Johnson's Scots Musical Museum [1], vol. 4 (1792, p. 405). The lyric, which is usually attributed to Robert Burns, begins:
Up wi' carls of Dysart,............carls = old men
And the lads o' Buckh'ven
And the Kimmers o' Largo,......kimmer = gossips
And the lasses o' Leven.
Hey ca' thro' ca' thro'
For we hae mickle a do,
Hey ca' thro' ca' thro'
for we hae mickle a do.
John Glen (1900) could find no earlier appearance of the melody.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 70. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 21. Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 27, p. 7. Hamilton's Universal Tunebook (Glasgow). Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 100.
Recorded sources: