Annotation:I serve a worthie laddie
Tune properties and standard notation
I SERVE A WORTHIE LADIE. Scottish, Air (cut time). C Major/A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The melody is the prototype of "Dumbarton's Drums (1)." It appears in the Skene Manuscript (c. 1620), Playford's Apollo's Banquet (1690, where it appears as "Scotch Tune"), and Dauney's Ancient Scotish Melodies (1838).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 20, p. 125.
Recorded sources: