Cromlet's Lilt

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Genre/Style	Scottish
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Artist	Biography:Robin Williamson
Title of recording	Legacy of the Scottish Harpers vol. 1
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Flying Fish FF358
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CROMLET'S LILT. Scottish. Robin Williamson dates the tune from the 1590's but notes that it was first found in print in the Reverand William Geddes' Saints' Recreation, 1683. It later appeared in James Oswald's Curious Collection of Scots Tunes (c. 1739) as the fourth figure of his 'Sonata of Scots Tunes'. Williamson remarks that the tune should more accurately be called "Cromleck's Lilt" after one Chisholm of Cromleck, who courted "a beauty named Helen, one of a family of 31 children, no less. Her youngest brother died at the age of 111, at which age he could still drink a bottle of ale at a draught." For some reason Cromleck had to leave for France, and while there composed a ballad and this tune for his beloved. Unfortunately, a friend had, in his absence, wooed the same Helen and so succeeded in winning her affections to the extent they were married. On their bridal night however, she was visited by at least the voice of Croleck which cried "Oh Helen, Helen, mind me," at which she lept from the bed in horror. Evidently the marriage was never consummated, for Cromleck soon came home, discovered the treachery of his friend, and succeeded in having the marriage annulled, whereupon "Helen became the happy wife of her first intended."

Recorded source: Flying Fish FF358, Robin Williamson - "Legacy of the Scottish Harpers, vol. 1."

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