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THE LOWLANDS O' HOLLAND.*
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2. I am on the side, E - nough to break a young heart, Wha late - ly was a bride, Wha
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1. pent it will I nev - er Un - til the day I dee, Tho' the Low -lands o' Hoi - land Ha'e
2. late -ly was a bon-nie bride And plea- sure in her e'e, But the Low -lands o' Hoi - land Ha'e
3. sail I ha'e a - ni-therlove Un - til the day I dee, For 1 nev-er lov'd a love but cue, And
l.twinn'dmy luve and me.
2.twinn'dmy love and me.
3. he's drounM in the sea.
* A somewhat different version of this ballad is included in Herd's follection of Scots Songs, 1776, vol. ii. The melody is probably very
old, and is considered by Stenhouse, Graham, and others;, to be tlie foundation of William Marshall's popular tune, "Miss Admiral Gordon's
•Strathspey" (see p. 140). Mr John Glen, however, points oat in h'S Collection nf Scottish Dance Music, 1891, that the *' Lowlands of Holland"
was first publistied in 1788 in Johnson's Museum, vol. ii. ; and that Marshall's " Miss Admiral" was printed as early as l"8i in Neil Stewart's
A Collection of Strathspey Rrels (etc.), Coviposed by Wm. Gordon. But this does not prove that Marshall was unacquainted with the air prior
to its being published by Johnson ; and certainly the structure of the" Lowlands of Holland " is distinctly older than that of Marshall's tune.
It has been suggested that Urbani adapted the air from Marshall's "Miss Admiral," but this is very improbable. Gow has a strathspey
called " Major Graham of Inchbrakie, by Niel Gow," in his first Collection, 1734, which greatly resembles " The Lowlands o' Holland," In
•Christie's Traditional. Ballad Airs, vol. ii., 1876, we find a tune entitled " The Lowlands o' Holland," which the editor of that work traces
back to the middle of last century, but which has no connection with the melody given above The air called the " Lowlands o' Holland,"
ki Oswald's second Collectvyn, is also entirely different.