Annotation:O Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley

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O SAW YE BONNIE LESLEY. AKA and see "Collier's bonie lassie (The)." Scottish, Air (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA. The poet Robert Burns set words to the tune "The Collier's bonie lassie" in honor of Miss Lesley Baillie (later Mrs. Cumming of Logie, Ayrshire), who had visited Burns with her father and sister. He must have been taken with her, for after entertaining them he accompanied them on horseback some 14 or 15 miles on their journey south. Neil (1991) remarks that the lyrics are a parody on the old ballad "My bonie Lizie Baillie, I'll rowe thee in my plaidie."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 178, p. 232.

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