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Thread #25270   Message #382733
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
25-Jan-01 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Alison Cross / Allison Gross (Child #35)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Allison Gross
I made a start on a transcription to midi of Lizzie Higgins' tune, but got bogged down in the ornamentation and postponed finishing it; today, however, I came across a transcription (undecorated) made by Colin Ross and published in English Dance and Song (vol.55, no.2, 1993) which I had forgotten about.  I have made a midi from it, and sent it to Alan for the Mudcat Midi Pages.  The verse missing from Malinky's arrangement of Lizzie Higgins' set of Allison Cross given above is as follows:

Wi' silver basin, silver kaim,
Tae kaim my heedie upon her knee,
Aye on ilkae Setterday nicht
Aul' Allison Cross she comes tae me.

This goes immediately before the "hallowe'en" verse.

Malcolm