Annotation:I Wish My Love Were in a Myre
X:1 T:I wish my love were in a myre M:C L:1/8 B:Alexander Stuart – “Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection part 2” (Edinburgh, B:c. 1724, pp. 28-29) F: https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/2968 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D V:1 AB|d2 (d/e/)f d3F |E>DE>F B2 AB|d2 A2 defe|d2 c>B B2 f>e| d2 (d/e/)f d3F|E>DEF B3d|ABAF GFED|d2 c>B B2:| |:f>e|d2 A>B A2 (d/e/)f|dedB A2 ef|g3b afed|g2 fe e2 fg| a/(g/f/e/) d/(e/f/g/) a3F|E>DE>F B3d|ABAF GFE>D|d2 c>B B2:| V:2 clef = bass z2|D,2D,,2 F,A,DD, |A,2A,,2G,2D,2|F,E,F,D, F,A,DA,|D,E,F,F,, B,,2z2| D,E,F,D, F,A,DD,|A,2A,,2G,2G,,2|D,G,F,D, E,D,C,B,,|F,2F,,2D,2:| |:z2|D,E,F,G, F,E,F,D,|F,2G,2 D,F,G,F,|E,2B,,2D,2A,2|B,2B,,2 E,2z2| D,A,F,D, F,A,DD,|A,2A,,2 G,2B,,2|D,G,F,D, E,D,C,B,,|D,E,F,F,, B,,2:|
I WISH MY LOVE WERE IN A MIRE. AKA - "I wish my Love were in a mire." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "I wish my love were in a mire" can be found in Scottish musician and dancing master David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741, No. 53, pp. 108-110), "Written for the use of Walter Mcfarlan of that ilk." The tune also appears, labeled a 'new set', in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), and it was entered into the music manuscript collections of James Ballantine (1770, Peeblesshire) and John Rook (1840, Waverton, Cumbria).