Cow Boy (The)

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Theme code Index	1363 1366
Also known as	Giullan nam bo
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	3 flats
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Simon Fraser
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles (The)
Tune and/or Page number	No. 9, p. 4
Year of publication/Date of MS	1816
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COW BOY, THE (Giullan nam bo). Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This tune "is a beautiful and tender love-song, of which the origin is not easily traced, no name being mentioned. The cow-boy seems, however, from the words, either to have been drowned, or at least amissing,-- perhaps enlisted,-- whilst his sweetheart and parents are querulously in search of him" (Capt. Simon Fraser of Knockie).

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1874; No. 9, p. 4. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 131.

X:1
T:Cow Boy, The
T:Guillan nam bo
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
S:Fraser Collection  (1874)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Eb
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