Annotation:There'll never be peace 'til Jamie comes hame
X:1 T:There'll ne'er be peace till Jamie come hame M:3/4 L:1/8 B:David Young – “A Collection of Scotch Airs with the latest Variations” (AKA - The B:McFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741, No. 83, p. 132) F: https://rmacd.com/music/macfarlane-manuscript/collection/pdfs/there_ll_ne_er_be_peace_till_jamie_come_hame.pdf N:The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland K:Amin AB|{AB}c3B Ac|B2 TA2G2|(D/E/^F) G2G,2|G4 AB|c2 dc TBA|B2 cB (c/B/A/G/)| E2A2 (AB)|A4 AB|(cB c)d e^f|(ga g)^f e2|(d/g/^f/g/) (B/g/f/g/) (A/c/B/A/)| G4 AB|(cB c)d e2|T^G3 E D2|E2A2T^G2|A4:| |:ab|(a/b/c') Tb2a2|b2 c'b ag|(eg/^f/ g)G Bd|g4 ab|(a/b/c') Tb2a2|b2 c'b Tag| (ea/^g/ a)A ce|a4 AB|cB (c/B/c/d/) (e/d/e/f/)|g>a (g/a/g/f/) (e/f/e/d/)|(B/A/B/c/) (d/e/d/c/) (B/c/B/A/)| G3B AB|c2 (d/c/B) (c/B/A)|e>f (e/d/c/B/) (c/B/A/G/)|E2A2 (AB)|A4:|]
THERE’LL NEVER BE PEACE ‘TIL JAMIE COMES HAME. Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor (Gow): A Minor (O’Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Published by Johnson in his Scots Musical Museum IV (1791) with words by Robert Burns. Burns knew the tune as an old Jacobite air (called “There are few good fellows when Jamie’s awa”), but, writing in 1791 (the year of Mozart’s death), he was inspired by the just completed French Revolution. See also the related Irish song tunes “There's an End to my Sorrow” and “My sorrow is greater than I can tell.” A similar Scottish air is “Nuair a chì thu caileag bhòidheach.”
