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Voice.
PlAKO.
"Mb^ weep ^e bi? tbe tibe, lab^e?"
Ballad by Sir Waltee Scott,
Moderato.
JOCK O' HAZELDEAN.*
Air : " Willie and Annet."
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1. "Why weep ye by the tide, la - dye? Wliy weep ye by the
2. " Now let this wil - ful grief be done, And dry that cheelc so
3. "A chain o' gold ye sail not lack, Nor braid to bind your
4. The kirli was deck'd at morn - ing - tide. The ta - pers glim - mer'd
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1. tide?
2. pale;
3. hair,
4. fair;
I'll wed
Young Frank
. Nor met
The priest
ye to
is chief
tied hound,
and bride -
my
of
nor
groom
young
Er
est
ring
man - aged
wait the
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son,
ton,
hawk,
bride.
And
And
Nor
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* From Alhyn's Anthology^ vol. i., 1816, for whicli collection Sir Walter Scott wrote the ballad. A version of the melody occurs in the
£eyden Manuscript, under the title of " The Bony brow." Scott's song was founded on the old ballad of " Jock o' Hazelgreen," a version of
which is given by Buchau, in his Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland. In his note to " The glancing of her apron," Museum
niustrations, p. 394, Stenhouse points out that the tune of " Jock o' Hazeldean " is merely the old simple air of " Wfllie and j^Jiuet," a florid
version of which is given in Playford's ' 'hoicc Ayres, Bk. II., London, I67i', -with verses by Thomas DUrfey, beginning, "In January last, on
Munnonday at Jlorn." The manuscript, kno^vn as the Leyden MS., belonged to the celebrated Dr. JohnLeyden. It is vsritten in tablature
for the Lyra-viol, and in 1847 George F. Graham made a transcript of it for the Advocates Library in Edinburgh. Its date is uncertain, but
from internal evadence. it cannot be older than 1695. It contains a number of Scottish tunes, which have been referred to in this volume.