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Thread #39728   Message #576894
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
21-Oct-01 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
3778)  WIM WAM WADDLES  The DT file says "collected from mummers in Dorset by BBC".  To elaborate a little, this would be Harry Greening and chorus of Dorsetshire Mummers, Dorchester, Dorset, 1936 (Peter Kennedy, Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland, 1975; presuming the information he gives is accurate).  Midi made from notation in Kennedy.

277)  THE BATTLE OF PRESTONPANS   and 3496)  TRANENT MUIR   These are both variants of the same song.  Bruce Olson said, in an earlier thread here: "The Battle of Prestonpans in DT file TRANMUI2 is that in Hogg's Jacobite Relics, II, #62, 1821.  The same text (except 'shit' in the 5th verse is expurgated) is called Tranet Muir in The Scots Musical Museum, #102, 1788.  The tune in both cases is "Gillikrankie" (Killikrankie). "

This is related to the tune given in the DT as  Killy Kranky, which is an American variant from Jean Ritchie; given the dates concerned, though, the intended tune would presumably be closer to the one used by Burns (1790) , and given as Killiecrankie in James Kinsley's Burns: Poems and Songs (1969).  Midi made from the notation in that book; I haven't embedded a lyric this time, as both songs are phrased differently; work it out for yourselves!

3069)  SANDY SEATON'S WOOING  [Child #33]
DT text from Moffat's 50 [?Traditional Scottish] Nursery Rhymes (if the unexplained "50 TSNR" so often referred to in DT files is that book); midi made from notation reproduced from Moffat in Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.

1964)  KINMONT WILLIE   [Child #186 ]
Bronson was very suspicious of this one, and inclined to suspect that both tune and text were fake.  He gives the tune published by Alexander Campbell in Albyn's Anthology (1816), with considerable reservations as to its authenticity (particularly as regards the second strain; such things are often bogus, invented by editors to make a tune more "interesting").  Midi made from that notation, however; judge for yourselves.

1599)  HUMBOLDT WASSAIL SONG   This is a parody of the well-known English Here We Come A-Wassailing, for which the tune is given with  HERE WE COME A WASSAILING (2); presumably that is the tune intended.  WASSCOME.MID