Annotation:Lord Eglintoun's Auld Man
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X:1 T:Lord Eglintoun's Auld Man M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey Q:"With spirit." B:Manson - Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 2 (1844, p. 48) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D d/B/|AD G/F/E/D/ ADDd/B/|AD G/F/E/D/ {F}A2 Ad/c/|BEGE BE BA/B/| d>e g/f/e/d/ B2 AB|d>efa efdB|A>FD>F A>Bde| f>de>B dABF|E/E/E F>A {A}B2B||f/g/|adfd ad df/g/| adfd a2 af/a/|bege be ed/B/|d>e {de}fe/d/ B2 AB| d>efa efdB|A>FD>F A>Bde|f>de>B dABF|E/E/E F>A {A}B2B||
LORD EGLINTOUN'S AULD MAN. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. James Hogg, the 'Ettrick Shepherd', adapted the melody as the vehicle for a song of the same title in his Forest Minstrel (1810). It begins:
The auld guidman came hame at night
Sair wearied wi' the way;
His looks were like an evening bright,
His hair was siller grey.
He spak o' days lang past an' gane,
When life beat high in every vein;
When he was foremost on the plain
On every blithesome day.
