Annotation:Edinburgh Kate
X:1 T:Edinburgh Kate M:C L:1/8 R:Air S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 205) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin E|A<AA>^G AB e2|d<Bg>B A>GE>A|G>AB>A G>AB>d|D<DE>G B>AA|| e|a>ba>^g a>ba>^f|g>ab>a g<e dg/a/|b>age d>ega|g<eg>B B>AA||
EDINBURGH KATE. "Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy (The)." Scottish, Air (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song "The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy" was inserted into Allan Ramsay's (1686-1758) Tea Table Miscellany, vol. 1 (1724-7), although it had also been printed by him four years earlier. It was based on an older song, now lost, and begins:
Now wat ye wha I met yestreen,
Coming down the street, my Jo?
My mistress in her tartan screen,
Fu' bonny, braw, and sweet, my jo.
My dear, quoth I, thanks to the night,
That never wish'd a lover ill,
Since ye're out of your mother's sight,
Let's tak a wauk up to the hill.
Ramsay's next song in the volume is "Katy's Answer," beginning with the line "My mither's ay glowran o'er me," by which the tune is usually known.