Annotation:Sweet Annie
X:1 T:Sweet Annie fra the Sea Beach came M:C L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Tender" B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6 (1760, p. 6-7) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin D|G2 (B>c) d3g|(d<B) (A<G) (BA)(G^F)|G2 (B>c) d3g|(d<B) (A<G) G3:| |:A|B2 (d<B) (f<d) (c<B)|(c<A) (G<F) {AB}c2 (BA)|(B<G)(B<G) (d2 c)B| (AG)(^F=E) D3D|(G>A)(BG) (AF)(=ED)|(AB)(cA) (BA)(G^F)|G2 (B<d) (g<e) (d<c)| (d<B) (AG) G3::D|GB (A/4B/2<c) Bd (c/4d/2<e)|d(c/B/) AG (BA)(G^F)| Gg(fe) d(cB) AG|(Aed)^F {F}G3::A|B2 (d/4c/2<B) f(e/d/) cB| (AB)(cd) c2 T(BA)|(B/4A/2<G) (B/4A/2<G) (ed)(cB)|(AG)(^F=E) D3D|(G/4/A/2<B) GB| A(G/F/) =ED| (A/4B/2<c) (A/4B/2<c) (BA)(G^F)|(GB)(d^f) (g<e) (dc)|.d/(B/A/G/) c./(A/G/^F/) {F}G3:|]
SWEET ANNIE. AKA - "Sweet Annie frae the Sea Beach came." Scottish, Air (whole time). G Minor (Davie, Mulhollan): A Minor (Gow). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Davie, Mulhollan): AABB (Gow). "Sweet Annie frae the Sea Beach came" was one of the Scottish songs that received a setting by the Classical composer Franz Joseph Haydn (Hob. Xxxia:261). The words by Dr. John Hoadley, set to music by Dr. Green, begin:
Sweet Annie frae the sea—beach came,
Where Jockey’s climbed the vessel’s side:
Ah! wha can keep her heart at hame,
When Jockey’s tossed aboon the tide?
Far off 'till distant realms he gangs,
But I’se be true, as he ha’ been;
And when ilk lass around him thrangs,
He’ll think on Annie’s faithful een.