Come Along and Keep Your Promise

COME ALONG AND KEEP YOUR PROMISE (Teann a nall is cum do ghealladh). Scottish, Strathspey. C Minor. Standard tuning. AB. This tune "is an air to which the editor has heard his father sing several good verses, but is infinitely better as a dancing tune, and forms an exquisite medley with No. 145 ("I'll Kiss the Bonny Lassie, Oh!"), which follows it" (Fraser). The title perhaps references a promise to "come out" for the 1745 rebellion.

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 144, p. 58. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 267.

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X:1
T:Come Along and Keep Your Promise
M:C
L:1/8
R:Strathspey
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection  (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:Eb
e|B<G G>F E/F/G/A/ B>G|B<G G>F G<B c2|B<G G>F E/F/G/A/ B>F|
G<c e>c d>^B c2|B<G G>F E/F/G/A/ B<G|B<G G>F G<B c2|B<G G>F E/F/G/A/ B>A|
G>FE>g f>d c||g|e>g f<d g<c B<G|e<gf<d b<d c2|e>g f<d g<c B<G|B<G G>F G>=B c2|
e>g f<d g<c B>G|e<gf<d b<d c2|g<bf<g e>cB>A|G>F E<g f>d c2|| 

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