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COSEN COLE'S DELIGHT. AKA and see "Sweet's the Lass that Loves Me." Scottish, Country Dance (whole time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. John Glen finds "Cosen Cole's Delight" the progenitor tune of that used for Robert Burns' song "O, leeze me on my spinnin-wheel," which appears in the Scots Musical Museum (1792, No. 360), under the title "Bess and her spinning wheel."

O Leeze me on my spinning-wheel,
And leeze me on my rock and reel;
Frae tap to tae that cleeds me bien,
And haps me fiel and warm at e'en!
I'll set me down and sing and spin,
While laigh descends the simmer sun,
Blest wi' content, and milk and meal,
O leeze me on my my spinnin' wheel.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Playford (A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes), 1700; No. 37, p. 15 [1].

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