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EARLY SCOTTISH MELODIES.
he refers to the opinion of Bunting, along with four other authorities, who
agree that it is not an Irish melody. J. M. Wood, in the " Popular Songs of
Scotland," 1887, expresses himself as follows: "The air has been claimed
alike by England, Scotland, and Ireland : the probability, however, seems
to be that it is an old English dance tune, and that the Scottish version,
with the long note in the 2nd and 6th bars, is an early form of it (see
Aird's Collection, Glasgow, 1784)." This conjecture is not, however,
supported by any evidence. The version in Aird's Selection, 1782, is called
" My lodging is on the cold ground " ; it is almost the present form of " I lo'e
na a Laddie but ane," but was probably used as a quickstep. The words of
the Scottish song were published in 1779. Eitson has the song by " J. D.,"
but we presume he has copied from " The Scots Nightingale," where " I.D."
is appended to the words, and the song is preceded by "Happy Dick
Dawson," which he names as the melody. Though we have not got the
Scottish tune printed as early as 1775, it is still undetermined whether
the curtailed- air, as Chappell calls it, or " My lodging is on the cold
ground," is the original. As a lively tune, the Scottish one excels. Mr
Moffat, in his Minstrelsy of Scotland, errs in saying " this air belongs to the
17th century : it is the composition of Matthew Locke, and is therefore
English." Locke's tune is entirely different, and has been superseded for
more than a century.
My lodging is on the cold geound.
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I lo'ed na a ladddj but ane.
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268. I'LL MAK' YOU BE FAIN TO FOLLOW ME.
We quote the following from Stenhouse's Illustrations : " Ramsay in-
serted a song by an anonymous hand to this lively old tune, beginning
' Adieu, for a while, my native green plains,' in the second volume of his
Tea-Table Miscellany, but he omitted the original song, beginning ' As late
by a soldier I chanced to pass,' now inserted in the Museum. The tune
appears in Oswald's Collection, and in many others." Stenhouse cites no
earlier authority for the air than Oswald, who gives it in his Caledonian