Annotation:Una's Lock (1)

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UNA’S LOCK [1]. AKA and see “Cumberland (The),” “Miss Gibson (2),” "Onagh's Lock," “Oonagh’s Waterfall.” Scottish, Air. Robert Burns set his lyirc "Sae flaxen were her ringlets," to this air, which is called in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum "an Irish Air." Burn's himself knew the tune as "Oonagh's Waterfall." See note for “Annotation:Onagh’s Lock” for more thorough explanation. The lyric begins:

'Twas on a sweet morning,
When violets were a-springing,
O The dew the meadows adorning,
The larks melodious singing,
O The rose-trees, by each breeze,
Were gently wafted up and down,
And the primrose, that there grows,
Bespangled nature's verdant gown.
The purling rill, the murmuring stream,
Stole gently through the lofty grove:
Such were the hours when Darbystole
Out to meet his barefoot love.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (The Scots Musical Museum), No. 447.

Recorded sources:

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