Annotation:I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue (2)
Tune properties and standard notation
I HAVE A BONNET TRIMMED WITH BLUE [2]. Scottish, Polka. D Major ('A', 'B', 'C' and 'F' parts) & G Major ('D' and 'E' parts). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. A variation of version #1. Jack Campin suggests the polka started as a World War I vintage tune called "The Liberton Polka", picked up by pipers, which became attached to an older tune called "The Kilberry Ball" to make up the modern four-part tune called “I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue.” It is a regimental march of the Royal Scots. See version #1 above for various lyrics, all rather simple. Soldiers of the first World War had their own set of words to the melody, famously and cynically entitled "Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire":
If you want to find the General, I know where he is...
Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 1, 1991; p. 48.
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