Annotation:Kate of Aberdeen (1)

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KATE OF ABERDEEN. English; Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Date of Aberdeen" was a favorite song by Jonathan Battishill [1] (1738-1801), written for the Ranelagh Gardens, a London pleasure-garden. It was frequently printed in latter 18th century songsters and issued on songsheets. The melody also appears in instrumental tutors such as Longman, Lukey & Broderip's A Pocket Book for the German Flute (1788) and Preston's New and Complete Instructions for the Hautboy (c. 1780). The song. which Robert Burns attributed to "Cunningham the player", appears in Johnson's Scots Musical Musem vol. 1 (1787, Song 35, p. 36) as "May Eve, or Kate of Aberdeen," and begins:

The silver moon's enamour'd beams,
Steal softly through the night,
To wanton in the winding streams,
And kiss reflected light.
To courts, begone! Heart soothing sleep,
where you've so seldom been,
Whilst I May's wakeful vigil keep,
With Kate of Aberdeen
With Kate of Aberdeen
With Kate of Aberdeen.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 10), 1760; p. 14. Riley (Flute Melodies, vol. 1), New York, 1814; p. 40.

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