Annotation:O Let me in this ae Night

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O LET ME IN THIS AE (ONE) NIGHT. Scottish, Air. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Old," says Gow (1806). The song was reworked by Robert Burns for the Scots Musical Museum, vol. IV. His version begins:

O lassie are ye sleepin yet,
Or are ye waukin, I wad wit,
For loove has bound me hand and fitt,
And I wad fain be in jo.

Chorus:
O let me in this ae night,
This ae, ae, ae night;
O let me in this ae night,
And I'll no come back again, jo.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 552. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 3, 1806; p. 14. Johnson (Scots Musical Museum, vol. 4), 1792; pp. 320-321. Wilson (Companion to the Ball Room), 1816; p. 43.

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