Annotation:Up in the Air (1)
X:1 T:Up in the Air [1] M:C| L:1/8 B:Alexander Stuart – “Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection part 6” B:(Edinburgh, c. 1724, pp. 146-147) F: https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/3086 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin V:1 A3B c3e|d3e c3B|A3B c3d|e3f e4|| efga g3f|efga g3f|e2a2a3^g|a2A2A4| efga g3f|efga g3f|e2a2a3^g|a2 A2 A4|| V:2 clef = bass A,2E,2A,,2z2|G,4G,,4|A,4 A,,4|E,4 E,,2z2|| C4C,4|C2 B,2G,2D,2|C,2D,2E,2E,,2|A,E,C,E, A,,2z2| C,2E,2B,,2D,2|C,2B,,2 C,2D,2|C,2D,2E,2E,,2|A,,2E,2A,2z2||
UP IN THE AIR [1]. Scottish, Air (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Ostensibly a drinking song (from the last stanza), but the first stanza (below) is nightmarish.
Now the Sun’s gane out o’ Sight,
Beet the Ingle, and snuff the Light:
In Glens the Fairies skip and dance,
And Witches wallop o’er to France
Up in the Air
On my bonny grey Mare,
And I see her yet, and I see her yet,
Up in, &c.
