Annotation:Down the Burn Davie (2)
X:1 T:Down the Burn Davie [2] M:C L:1/8 B:Alexander Stuart – “Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection part 4” B:(Edinburgh, c. 1720, pp. 92-93) F:https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/3032 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F V:1 FG|AGFD CDFG|A2 (GF) F3c|Acdf cAGF|A2 G2G3c| AGFD CDFG|A2 GF f3c|defc fgac|A2 (GF) F2 ag| Fcfg afgd|cAcd f3g|(ag)(fd) (fd)(cA)|c2 (GA) G3c| AGFD CDFG|A2 (GF) f3c|defc fgac|A3B A2|| V:2 clef = bass z2|F,2D,2A,,2B,,2|C,2C,,2F,2z2|F,2B,2A,2C2|F,2C,2G,,2 z2| F,2B,2A,2A,,2|F,2C,2A,,2F,2|B,2A,2G,2F,2|C2C,,2F,2z2| A,2G,2F,2B,2|A,2F,2A,,2B,,2|F,,2B,,2A,,2F,,2|A,,2C,2G,,2z2| F,2B,2A,2F,2|C2C,,2F,2z2|B,2A,2G,2F,2|C2C,2F,2||
DOWN THE BURN DAVIE LAD [2]. Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This song air was printed in William Thompson's Orpheus Caledonius, 2nd Ed, vol. 1 (1733), James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (vol. IV, 1760, pp. 18-19), Francis Peacock's Fifty Favourite Scotch Airs (1762, p. 3), Calliope, or the Musical Miscellany (London, 1788, pp. 10-11), and other volumes. A tune by this name was printed by Oswald/Stuart (Music for the Teatable Miscellany). Scottish poets Robert Crawford and Robert Burns each wrote verses to this version of the air. The tune was included in Seabrook, New Hampshire, musician Jeremiah Brown's c. 1782 music commonplace book.
