Annotation:My love's bonny when she smiles on me

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MY LOVE'S BONNY WHEN SHE SMILES ON ME. AKA and see "Flowers of Edinburgh (1)." Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This tune may have been written (with the above title) in the 1740's by James Oswald, although he laid no claim to it. Glen says it appeared in 1742, referring to its publication in Oswald's A Second Collection of Curious Scots Tunes (1744). Soon after, in 1751, it was published by Oswald in his Caledonian Pocket Companion under the title "Flowers of Edinburgh," and the melody is popularly and widely known nowadays by that title in its reel-time setting.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 25, pg. 47.

Recorded sources: Redwing Music RWMCD 5410, Abby Newton - "Castles, Kirks and Caves" (2001).

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