Annotation:O This is no My Ain Lassie

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O THIS IS NO MY AIN LASSIE. AKA - "This is no my ain house." AKA and see "Miss Welsh's Fancy." Scottish, Air and Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title of a 1795 song by poet Robert Burns, set to the tune of "This is no my ain house."

I see a form, I see a face,
Ye weel may wi' the fairest place;
It wants, to me, the witching grace,
The kind love that's in her e'e.

Chorus:
This is no my ain lassie,
Fair tho, the lassie be;
Weel ken I my ain lassie,
Kind love is in her e're.

The tune is a version of "Miss Welsh's Fancy," printed by William Campbell in 1795. The first strain is shared with Alexander Don's strathspey "Caledonian Hunt (1) (The), appearing in the Gow publications and the 1838 music manuscript book of musician William Irwin.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cameron (Cameron's Selection of Violin Music), Glasgow, 1859; p. 31. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880’s; No. 367, p. 41.

Recorded sources: Decca 14028 (78 RPM), Colin Boyd (1934). Parlophone PMD1012, Jimmy Shand - "Scottish Country Dances In Strict Tempo No. 1."

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