Annotation:Maid that Tends the Goats (The)

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MAID THAT TENDS THE GOATS, THE (Nighean donn nan gabhar). AKA and see "Brown-haired Goatherdess," "Cliffy Rocks." Scottish, Air or Slow Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part: AABB (Gow/Repository, O'Farrell). Gow (1802) remarks: "Supposed very Ancient." The tune was also printed by James Aird in his 6th collection (1803). Thompson, in his Scottish Airs (1805), stripped Robert Burns original tune for his song "Ca' the Yowes" and substituted instead the melody for "Maid that Tends the Goats."

"The Maid That Tends the Goats" is also a poem by William Dudgeon (1753–1813) that begins:

Upamang yon cliffy rocks
Sweetly rings the rising echo
To the maid that tends the goats,
Lilting o’er her native notes.
Hark, she sings, “Young Sandy’s kind,
5 And he’s promised aye to lo’e me;
Here’s a brooch I ne’er shall tine
Till he’s fairly married to me.
Drive away, ye drone, time,
And bring about our bridal day.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 129. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; p. 12. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 10: Airs & Melodies of Scotland's Past), 1992 (revised 2001); p. 11. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; p. 121. Patrick MacDonald, No. 138, p. 21.

Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF 1077, Capercaillie - "Crosswinds" (1987).

See also listing at:
Hear the tune play by Sofie and Jose MacDonald on youtube.com [1]



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