Annotation:Lord Eglintoun's Auld Man

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LORD EGLINTOUN'S AULD MAN. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. James Hogg, the 'Ettrick Shepherd', adapted the melody as the vehicle for a song of the same title in his Forest Minstrel (1810). It begins:

The auld guidman came hame at night
Sair wearied wi' the way;
His looks were like an evening bright,
His hair was siller grey.
He spak o' days lang past an' gane,
When life beat high in every vein;
When he was foremost on the plain
On every blithesome day.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; p. 4. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 157, p.18. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 108.

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