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THERE WAS A LAD (WAS BORN IN KYLE). AKA and see “Fiddler's Morris,” "Watson's Scots Measure." Scottish, Air, March, Scots Measure and Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The versatile tune of "There was a Lad was born in Kyle" was first associated with the song "O an ye were dead guidman" which can be traced to Gude and Godlie Ballates (1567), although the air consisted of only one strain. G. Farquhar Graham, in Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland (1893), recorded the belief that the air had been employed during the Reformation in Scotland (c. 1525-60) as a spiritual hymn. A second strain derived from James Oswald's c. 1760 variations on the tune became attached to the one-strain air<ref>According to Stenhouse, in his notes to the Scots Muscial Museum, and the two-part instrumental version of the melody was published by Alexander McGlashan in 1788 as "Watson's Scots Measure". In this form that John Templeton, a tenor of the Italian Opera, and Scottish vocalist, brought the song into public notice but instead of singing it to the tune for which Burns wrote it, he chose the two-part ssociated today with Robert Burns' (1759-96) autobiographical lyric "There was a Lad" (although Burns originally used that air for "Highland lad my love was born (A)," which is now associated with "White Cockade (1) (The)"). The first stanza and chorus begin:

There was a lad was born in Kyle,
But what na day o' what na style,
I doubt it 's hardly worth the while
To be sae nice wi' Robin.

Chorus:
Robin was a rovin' Boy,
Rantin' rovin', rantin' rovin';
Robin was a rovin' Boy,
Rantin' rovin' Robin.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Niel & Nathaniel Gow (Complete Repository, Part 1), 1799. Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; p. 30. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935.

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+|f_annotation='''THERE WAS A LAD (WAS BORN IN KYLE).''' AKA and see “[[Fiddler's Morris]],” "[[Watson's Scots Measure]]." Scottish, Air, March, Scots Measure and Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The versatile tune of "There was a Lad was born in Kyle" was first associated with the song "[[O an ye were dead guidman]]" which can be traced to '''Gude and Godlie Ballates''' (1567), although the air consisted of only one strain.  G. Farquhar Graham, in '''Popular Songs and  Melodies of Scotland''' (1893), recorded the belief that the air had been employed during the Reformation in Scotland (c. 1525-60) as a spiritual hymn.  A second strain derived from James Oswald's c. 1760 variations on the tune became attached to the one-strain air<ref>According to Stenhouse, in his notes to the '''Scots Muscial Museum''', and the two-part instrumental version of the melody was published by Alexander McGlashan in 1788 as "[[Watson's Scots Measure]]".  In this form that John Templeton, a tenor of the Italian Opera, and Scottish vocalist, brought the song into public notice but instead of singing it to the tune for which Burns wrote it, he chose the two-part ssociated today with Robert Burns' (1759-96) autobiographical lyric "There was a Lad" (although Burns originally used that air for "[[Highland lad my love was born (A)]]," which is now associated with "[[White Cockade (1) (The)]]"). The first stanza and chorus begin:
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-The original tune was called “O Gin Ye Were Dead, Gudeman”, although it consisted of only the half the tune we have now. The second half is a variation found in James Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion, of which Robert Burns had a cherished copy, and from which he used several tunes for his songs.
-There is also a belief - reported by G Farquhar Graham in Popular Songs & Melodies of Scotland (1893) - that the tune was used during the Reformation in Scotland as a spiritual hymn, suggesting that it’s at least mid-16th century.