Annotation:Bob of Dunblane (2)

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BOB OF DUNBLANE [2], THE. Scottish, English; Air (6/8 time). E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song is by poet Allan Ramsay.

Lassie, lend me your braw hemp heckle,
And I'll lend you my thripling kame;
For fainness, deary, I'll gar ye keckle,
If ye'll go dance the Bob of Dunblane.
Haste ye, gang to thee ground of ye'r trunkies,
Busk ye braw, and dinna think shame;
Consider in time, if leading of monkies
Be better than dancing the Bob of Dunblane.

Be frank, my lassie, lest I grow fickle,
And take my word and offer again;
Syne ye may chance to repent it meikle
Ye did na accept of the Bob of Dunblane.
The dinner, the piper, and priest, shall be ready,
And I'm grown dowie with lying my lane;
Away then, leave baith minny and daddy,
And try with me the Bob of Dunblane.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thomson (Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 1), 1733, No. 43, p. 53.

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