The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . Airs. As there are no explanatory notes to that volume, it is not knowneither when or where Dr. Petrie obtained it. He was so scrupulously exact, however, that we may besure he had what he believed to be satisfactory reasons for considering it to be an Irish tune; but as wahave had not only this song, but an earlier one (1769), sung to it for more than a century, the evidenceis very strong in favour of the Scottish claim. The name given to it by Dr. Petrie—March Tune—seemsto suggest that it may have been introduced into Ireland by
The Popular songs of Scotland with their appropriate melodies . Airs. As there are no explanatory notes to that volume, it is not knowneither when or where Dr. Petrie obtained it. He was so scrupulously exact, however, that we may besure he had what he believed to be satisfactory reasons for considering it to be an Irish tune; but as wahave had not only this song, but an earlier one (1769), sung to it for more than a century, the evidenceis very strong in favour of the Scottish claim. The name given to it by Dr. Petrie—March Tune—seemsto suggest that it may have been introduced into Ireland by the band of a marching regiment. The earlier song, The Wayward Wife, which begins, Alas, my son, you little know, was written byMiss Jenny Graham, daughter of William Graham, Esq. of Shaw, in Annandale. That which we give herewith the music takes a happier view of wedlock, and was probably meant to be an answer to it. Theauthor is not known. 228 SCOTTISH SONGS. LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER. AIR, : THE LOTHIAN LASSIE. ARRANGED BY T. M. MUDIE. r- = 80 ^-«~*—^gEI—^Et^p u £=*= -gr± £=£ «—a- Last May a braw woo - er cam down the lang glen, And i II wm h t li!^ m =s=^ 55 SgP^EgEEgEE :l>: wi hi9 love he did deave me; said there was naething —V—« \ J ^ a—i 3EI fe pi ei *=* ls=5T -e—fr > n—r> t>=^=* ^^^S^^E^S^ ^^ g -•-i- ha - ted like men; The deuce gae wi him to be - lieve me, be - lieve me, The W- gzgbrH^^ ^j 1—f£ ei £3zH^£F£=3F=g=l ?4creS -3^z -§ _—Zfe > - 9—| LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER. 229 tt ^ deuce gae wi him to be - lieve me!
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