Come Hap Me with Thy Petticoat

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Theme code Index	526L6L 5555
Also known as	Leith Wynd, Leith Wind
Composer/Core Source
Region	England, Scotland
Genre/Style	English, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	William McGibbon
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Scots Tunes Book 2
Tune and/or Page number	p. 42
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1746
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COME HAP ME WITH THY PETTICOAT. Scottish, English; Air or Reel. England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The first printing of this old Scottish song appears to be in Allan Ramsay's Orpheus Caledonius (London, 1725). Stenhouse, in notes to the Scots Musical Museum, where "Come Hap Me with They Petticoat" appears as Air CXXXIX (No. 139), criticizes versions that "are so modernized as scarce to have a trace of (the tune's) ancient simplicity"; it was originally a lullaby, he notes, The song was written by Ramsay to an older tune called "O Bell, thy looks have kill'd my heart", and Stenhouse says "it is certainly the most stupid song Ramsay ever wrote. To work the silly burden of a nurse's lullaby to her infant, into a grave song for a full-grown lover, seems really too absurd..."

I'll hap ye wi' my petticoat,
My ain kind dow,
I'll hap ye wi' my petticoat
My ain kind dow.
The wind blaws cauld, my claithing's thin,
O dearie, on me rue,
And hap me wi' my petticoat,
My ain kind dow.

Source for notated version: a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; p. 65. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book II), c. 1746; p. 42. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), 177?; p. 9. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 121, p. 64.

X:1 T:Come hap me with thy petticoat M:C L:1/8 S:Stenhouse Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F f2|c2A2G2F2|D2C2D2F2|c4 c2A2|c6 f2| c2A2G2F2|D2C2D2c2|d4 d2c2|d6 f2| c2d2f2g2|f2a2g2f2|c2d2c2A2|c6 f2| c2A2G2F2|D2C2D2c2|d4 d2c2|d6||

X:2 T:Come hap me with thy Peticoat (sic) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:McGlashan - Collection of Scots Measures (177?) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G g|dBAG EDEG|d>edB d3g|dBAG G>ABd|e>ged e3g|dBAG E>DEG| d>gdB d3g|dBA>B G>ABd|e>ged e3||g|d>ega g/a/b ag|d>edB d3e| d>ega g/a/b ag|e>ba>g e3g|d>ega g/a/b ag|d/g/f/e/ d/c/B/c/ d3g| e/d/c/B/ c/B/A/B/ G/F/G/A/ B/A/B/d/|e/d/e/f/ g/f/e/^d/ e3||

X:2
T:Come hap me with thy Petticoat
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"Brisk"
S:McGibbon - Scots Tunes, book II, p. 42  (c. 1746)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
g3 | d3B !trill!A3G | E3DE2G2 | d4 d3B | d6g2 | d3B!trill!A3G | !trill!E3D E2G2 | 
e4!trill!e3d | e6 :: g2 | d3e g3a | (gab2) !trill!(a3g) | d3ed2B2 | d6g2 | d2e2g2a2 | 
(gab2) !trill!(a3g) | e3b !trill!a3g | e6g2 | d3eg3a | (gab2) !trill!a3g | d3ed2B2 | d6g2 | 
(ed)(cB) (cB)(AG) | !trill!E3D E2G2 | e6!trill!e3d | e6 :: g2 | (ded)B c(BAG) | (EG)(DG) E2G2 | 
(dBd)e (ded)B | d6g2 | (ed)(cB) (cB)(AG) | EGED E2G2 | (ede)g (eg)(ed) | 
e6 :: g2 | (dBd)e (deg)a | (g3a/b/) !trill!a3g | d(gfe) (dcB)c | d6e2 | d2(ef) (gfg)a | 
(g3a/b/) !trill!a3g | e3b (aba)g | !trill!e6g2 | (dBd)e (deg)a | g3(a/b/) !trill!a3g | 
d(gfe) d(cBc) | d6g2 | (ed)(cB) (dB)(AG) | EGDG !trill!(EDE)G | e3g (ege)d | e6 :||