Annotation:As I came o'er the Cairney Mount

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AS I CAME O'ER THE CAIRNEY MOUNT. Scottish, Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song appears in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1787, p. 480), a sanitized version of an older and more bawdy song (which appears in Burns' The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799). The 'Museum' version goes:

As I came o'er the Cairney mount
And down amang the blooming heather,
Kindly stood the milkin-shiel
To shelter frae the stormy weather.

O my bonie Highland lad,
My winsome, weelfar'd Highland laddie;
Wha wad mind the wind and rain,
Sae weel row'd in his tartan plaidie.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 425, p. 164.

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