Annotation:Weavers' March (The)

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WEAVER'S MARCH, THE. AKA and see "Charles of Sweden,” “Cheat (The),” “Cheat or Swing,” "Come Jolly Bacchus," “Coquette (3),” "First of August (The)," "Frisky Jenny," "Gallant Weaver (The)," “In My Cottage Near a Wood,” “Pretty Polly (5),” "Tenth of June (The)," "Twenty first of August." English, Scottish, March (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody, a trade tune associated with the weavers, was printed by James Aird in his Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782; No. 164, p. 60). He gave "21st of August" as an alternate title. Poet Robert Burns wrote verses to the march, a song called "Gallant Weaver (The)" that begins:

Where Cart rins row in tae the sea,
By mony a flow'r and shading tree,
There lives a lad, the lad for me,
He is a gallant weaver.
Oh I had wooers ought of nine,
The gui'ed me rings and ribbons fine,
But I was fear'd my heard wad tine,
And I gie'd it tae the weaver.

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