Annotation:There was a Lad was born in Kyle
X: 1 T:There was a Lad was Born In Kyle C:Joe Buchanan's Scottish Tome - Page 211.2 I:211 2 Z:Carl Allison R:Reel L:1/8 M:2/4 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/mirror/thisoldtractor.com/I-reel.abc K:G D/ | GG dG/A/ | BA AB/A/ | GG dG/A/ | (.B.g) d>d | (e/f/)g/d/ (B/c/)d/B/ | (e/d/)c/B/ AB/A/ | G{f}g d/e/d/c/ | BA {f}G :| d/ | gg g/a/b/g/ | (a/g/)a/b/ ag/e/ | (d/e/)g/a/ (g/a/)b/a/ gd ed | (e/f/)g/d/ (B/c/)d/B/ | (e/d/)c/B/ AB/A/ | G{f}g d/e/d/c/ | BA {F}G :|
THERE WAS A LAD (WAS BORN IN KYLE). AKA and see “Fiddler's Morris,” "O an ye were dead guidman," "Watson's Scots Measure." Scottish, Air, March, Scots Measure and Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The versatile tune of "There was a Lad was born in Kyle" was first associated with the song "O an ye were dead guidman" which can be traced to Gude and Godlie Ballates (1567), although the air consisted of only one strain. G. Farquhar Graham, in Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland (1893), recorded the belief that the air had been employed during the Reformation in Scotland (c. 1525-60) as a spiritual hymn. A second strain derived from James Oswald's c. 1760 variations on the tune became attached to the one-strain airCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag. The first stanza and chorus begin:
There was a lad was born in Kyle,
But what na day o' what na style,
I doubt it 's hardly worth the while
To be sae nice wi' Robin.
Chorus:
Robin was a rovin' Boy,
Rantin' rovin', rantin' rovin';
Robin was a rovin' Boy,
Rantin' rovin' Robin.
