Annotation:On Ettrick Banks

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ON ETTRICK BANKS. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This air by an unknown composer appears in Allan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany of 1724. Robert Burns used it for his verses "On Ettrick Banks," which he sent to Mrs. Stewart of Stair.

On Ettrick banks on a summer's night, At gloaming when the sheep drove hame, I met my lassie bra' and tight Cam' wading barefoot, a' her lane. My heart grew light, I ran, I flang My arms about her lily neck, And kiss'd and clap'd her there fu' lang My words there were na' mony feck.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 39, p. 50.

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