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Thread #7754   Message #47387
Posted By: Bruce O.
30-Nov-98 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Kate Dalrymple
Subject: Lyr Add: I HAE BEEN AT CROOKIEDEN (Robert Burns)
John Glen, 'Early Scottish Melodies', p. 243 notes that the tune is one of several 'Highland Laddy' tunes and the one now called "Kate Dalrymple" is in Rutherford's '24 Country Dances for the year 1749', and gives the tune, p. 242. The tune is called "The Old Highland Laddie" in Oswald's CPC, vi, c 1754. In 'The Scots Musical Museum' it's the tune for #332, for Robert Burns' 'Bonie laddie Highland Laddie', commenciing "I have been at Crookieden, My bonnie laddie, Highland laddie". There is a somewhat fouled up version of this in DT, where the part labeled chorus is actually the first verse, but without the opening line.

Here's a corrected text:

I HAE BEEN AT CROOKIEDEN
(Robert Burns)

Tune: The New Highland Laddie/ The Old Highland Laddie

I have been at Crookieden,
   My bonie laddie, Highland laddie,
Viewing Willie and his men
  My bonie laddie, Highland laddie.
There our faes that burnt and slew,
  My bonie laddie, Highland laddie,
There, at last, they gat their due,
   My bonie laddie, Highland laddie.

Satan sits in his black neuk,
   My bonie laddie, Highland laddie,
Breaking sticks to roast the Duke,
   My bonie laddie, Highland laddie,
The bloody monster gae a yell,
  My bonie laddie, Highland laddie,
And loud the laugh gaed round a' hell.
  My bonie laddie, Highland laddie.

@Scots
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