Annotation:I Hae Seen the Roses Blaw
Tune properties and standard notation
I HAE SEEN THE ROSES BLAW. AKA and see "O I Hae Seen the Roses Blaw." English, Air (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See the Pennsylvania collected "Oho Oho I've Found You Out," for a version of this tune in the Americas.
O! I hae seen the roses blaw,
The heather bloom, the broom and a',
The lily spring as white as snaw,
With all their native splendour.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Stokoe & Bruce (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; pp. 8485
Recorded sources: