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). Robert Chambers, in his Songs of Scotland Prior to Burns (1890, p. 314) gives the song, the first twoo stanzas of which goes:

The yellow haired laddie sat on yon burn brae,
Cries, Mild the ewes, lassie, let nane o' them gae;
And aye she milked and aye she sang,
The yellow haired laddie shall be my guidman.

The weather is cauld, and my claithing is thin,
The ewes are new clipped, they winna bught in;
They winna bughtin, although I should die,
O yellow-haired laddie, be kind unto me.

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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