Annotation:Yellow Haired Laddie (2)

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YELLOW HAIRED LADDIE [2]. AKA and see "Brown Haired Boy (The)." Scottish, English; Air or Waltz. G Major (Carlin): D Major (Gatherer, Huntington, O’Farrell, Sumner). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Gatherer): AABB (Sumner/Gibbons): AA'BB' (Carlin, Huntington, O’Farrell). A very popular tune for quite some years. The melody was used three times for songs in Allan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany (c. 1724).

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].

Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 178, p. 103. Gatherer (Gatherer’s Musical Museum), 1987; p. 27. Hamilton, Select Songs of Scotland (1848). Howe (Musician's Onmibus, No. 2), p. 116. Huntington (William Litten's Tune Book), 1977; p. 45. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; p. 85. Napier (A Selection of Favorite Scots Songs), vol. 1, p. 66. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; p. 153. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. III), c. 1808; p. 36. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 155, p. 27. Ritson (Scottish Songs, vol. 1), pp. 125 126. Sime (The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany), pp. 52 53. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 53 (originally set in the key of F major, noted for two instruments). Thomson (Orpheus Caledonius), p. 12. Thumoth (Twelve Scotch and Twelve Irish Airs with Variations), London, 1742, pp. 4-5.

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