The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26134   Message #323215
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
20-Oct-00 - 02:37 AM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing Tunes Wanted -IV
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing Tunes Wanted -IV
MMario, can you switch text around in DT files?

"The brisk young lad" in DT file BRISKLAD doesn't have a tune. The song without music or tune direction is in Herd's 'Scots Songs', II, 1776, and with music in 'The Scots Musical Museum', #219 (1790) and I have the tune there, and versions of it as early as 1740, and there's even an ABC of a version of c 1778 on the web. The tune in SMM may not be the original tune for the song, but it's the earliest known tune for the song.

However, the song starts in the noted collections with "There came a young man to my daddy's door" and the chorus follows as "And wow, but he was a braw young lad". For some unknown reason the song is given chorus first in DT, so the tune won't fit right unless the DT text is rearranged to put chorus after the first verse. I won't do an ABC of the tune with the 2nd strain first. [I've got a recorded version of the song sung by Ewan MacColl that he said he learned from his mother and then he completed it from the text given by David Herd.]