Annotation:Lady Lie Near Me
X:1 T:Lady, Lie Near Me M:3/4 L:1/8 S:Chappell - Popular Music of the Olden Times (1859) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D FG A2F2 | E2F2D2 | B2A2d2 | B4A2 :| d3e fe | d2d2A2 | d2d2e2 | f4e2 | f2f2e2 | d3e f2 | A2F4 | E4 D2 ||
LADY LIE NEAR ME. AKA - "Green Garter (1)," "Ladie lie near me." English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The air is published in John Playford's English Dancing Master [1] (1651, p. 92), however, the original song that the dance tune is based on is not known. Playford retained the tune under this title in the long-running Dancing Master series, through the eighth edition of 1690.
Researcher Anne Gilchrist remarks:
A prettier song than the dialogue in Ritson's North Country Chorister is given as the "old words" in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (No. 218), It begins:
Lang hae we parted been,
Lassie, my dearie.
but the tune is different from that in Playford, though of similar character. Burns wrote a new version for the Museum, beginning "Hark the loud
tempest shakes earth to its center" [1].
- ↑ Anne G. Gilchrist, "Some Additional Notes on the Traditional History of Certain Ballad-Tunes in the Dancing Master", Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol. 3, No. 4, Dec., 1939, p. 279).