Annotation:Hamilla

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X:1 % T:Hamilla T:Bonniest Lass in all the World M:C L:1/8 R:Air S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 207) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G>A|B2D2E2G2|cBAG E2 D>E|G2g2 degd|e4 d2 ef| gfed efgB|cBAG E2 DE|G2g2 (d>e)(c>d)|B3A G2|| (ef)|gfed efge|agfe f>gaf|gfga bgab|e4 d2 ga| bage degB|cBAG E2 DE|G2g2 decd|B3A G2||

HAMILLA. AKA and see "Bonniest Lass in a' the World (1) (The)." Scottish, Scots Measure and Air (whole time). D Major (Johnson): G Major (Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The first stanza goes:

Look where my dear Hamilla smiles,
Hamilla, heav'nly charmer!
See how with all their arts and wiles,
The loves and graces arm her!
A blush dwells glowing on her cheek,
Fair seat of youthful pleasure!
There love in smiling language speaks,
There spreads the rosy treasure.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Johnson (Scots Musical Museum, vol. 2), 1788; Song 108, p. 111.

Recorded sources: -