Annotation:I Had a Horse I Had Nae Mair
Tune properties and standard notation
I HAD A HORSE I HAD NAE MAIR (I had a horse, I had no more). Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title is an obvious and old pun. Poet Robert Burns directed that his songs "Composed in August":
Now westlin winds and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
The moorcock springs on whirring wings
Amang the blooming heather:
and his "The Mauchline Lady" (1784)
When first I came to Stewart Kyle,
My mind it was na steady:
Where'er I gaed, where'er I rade,
A mistress still I had ay.
be set to this air.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O’Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. III), c. 1808; p. 8.
Recorded sources: