Annotation:Jessamine Bower (The)

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JESSAMINE BOWER, THE. Scottish, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Celia in a Jessamine Bower" is a song on Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany: a collection of choice songs, Scots and English." The first two stanzas are:

When the bright God of day
Drove westward his ray,
And the evening was charming and clear,
The swallows amain
Nimbly skim o'er the plain,
And our shadows like giants appear.

In a jassamine bower,
When the bean was in flower,
And Zephyrs breath'd odours around,
Lov'd Celia she sat
With her song and spinet,
And she charm'd all the grove with her sound.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 12), 1760; p. 24.

Recorded sources:

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