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ENGLISH SONS AND BALLAD MUSIC.
The song quoted by Mr. C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe, " O, fair maid,whase aught
that bonny bairn," is in a different metre, and could not be sung to any of these
airs. Mrs. Grant's song, " where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie
gone ? " was written after this tune had been rendered popular by Mrs. Jordan's
singing. Stenhouse (as usual) gives a wrong date.
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Oh! where, and oh ! where does your Highland laddie dwell ?
He dwells in merry Scotland, at the sign of the Blue Bell ;
And it's oh ! in my heart, that I love my laddie well.
What clothes, in what clothes is your Highland laddie clad ?
His bonnet's of the Saxon green, his waistcoat of the plaid ;
And it's oh ! in my heart, that I love my Highland lad.
Suppose, oh ! suppose that your Highland lad should die !
The bagpipes shall play over him, — I'll lay me down and cry ;
And it's oh ! in my heart, that I wish he may not die.
THE COLLEGE HORNPIPE.
All hornpipes in common time are of comparatively late date, — perhaps in no
case earlier than the last century, and generally of the latter half.
The genuine old English hornpipe was in triple time, simple or compound ; and
although, about the commencement of the last century, some were reprinted, and
then marked f, they are, nevertheless, in :] time. For instance, " The famous
Darbysheire Hornpipe," in " An extraordinary Collection of pleasant and merry