Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again (Walter Scott)

Subject: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: alison
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 08:45 PM

thanks to Bill D for the MIDI... this tune is now available at Mudcat MIDIs

slainte

alison

Subject: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 08:57 PM

just sent midi of this to Alison...trying to learn Noteworthy and post some of the contents of an old Scottish songbook edited by George Farquhar Graham. As I told alison, I now have a digital camera capable of putting up a readable text and showing the actual pages of the book, so perhaps I'll post the table of contents of the book and take requests...(yes,,,this was a wierd first choice..it is just where the book fell open...)

Donald Caird's Come Again..(Sir Walter Scott)..

Donald Caird's¹ come again!
Donald Caird's come again!
Tell the news in brough² and glen
Donald Caird's come again!
Donald Caird can lilt and sing,
Blythly dance the Highland fling;
Drink till the gudeman be blind,
Fleech³ till the gudewife be kind;
Hoop a leglin⁴, clout a pan,
Or crack a pow wi' ony man;
Tell the news in brough and glen,
Donald Caird's come again!

Donald Caird's come again!
Donald Caird's come again!
Gar the bagpipes hum amain,
Donald Caird's come again!
Donald Caird can wire a maukin,⁵
Kens the wiles o' dun deer stalkin';
Leisters kipper,⁶makes a shift,
To shoot a muir-fowl i' the drift:
Water-baliffs, rangers, keepers,
He can wauk when they are sleepers;
Not for bountith, or reward,
Daur they mell wi' Donald Caird.

Donald Caird's come again!
Donald Caird's come again!
Tell the news in brugh and glen,
Donald Caird's come again!
Donald Caird can drink a gill,
Fast as hostler-wife can fill;
Ilka ane that sells gude liquor,
Kens how Donald bends a bicker:⁷
When he's fou, he's stout and saucy,
Keeps the cantle o' the causey;^8,
Highland chief and Lawland laird
Maun gi'e room to Donald Caird.

Donald Caird's come again!
Donald Caird's come again!
Dinna let the Shirra ken,
Donald Caird's come again!
Steek the aumrie,⁹ lock the kist,
Else some gear may well be missed;
Donald Caird finds orra things
Where Allan Gregor fand the tings;
Dunts o kebbuck,¹⁰taits o' woo,
Whiles a hen and whiles a sow
Webs or duds frae hedge or yard-
Ware the wuddie,¹¹ Donald Caird!

Donald Caird's come again!
Donald Caird's come again!
Dinna let the Justice ken,
Donald Caird's come again!
On Donald Caird the doom was stern,
Craig to tether,¹² legs to airn:¹³
But Donald Caird, wi' muckle study,
Caught the gift to cheat the wuddie.
Rings o' airn, and bolts o' steel,
Fell like ice frae hand and heel!
Watch the sheep in fauld and glen,
Donald Caird's loose again!

1. Caird or Ceard..tinker
2.Burgh....(grin..fat lot of help THAT is)
3.Flatter
4.A milk pail
5. Snare a hare
6.To spear salmon with a 3-pronged weapon
7.Drinks lustily
8.Middle of the roadway
9.Shut the pantry
10.Large piece of cheese
11.Beware of the gallows
12.Throat to the halter
13.Legs to fetters

(note says the 'original' tune was "no means a good specimen of Highland melody, while the harmonic arrangement given to it is as barbarous as possible"...so a tune based on something by Handel was substituted...)

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:02 PM

wow...that was fast, alison...thanks!..lyrics are in another thread..

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:11 PM

and alison already had the midi up...ain't technology neat?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: alison
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:14 PM

its at Mudcat MIDIs

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:16 PM

Bill - god YES! post the table of contents....and I can transcribe from sheet music, so if you get overwhelmed you could e-mail me gifs and I'd be willing to give you a hand.

MMario

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:21 PM

BTW - just listened to the midi and I think I've got a "new" song for faire this summer!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:28 PM

hey! neat, mario...glad it looks worthwhile!you oughta see the 200-300 others...(this book is listed as one of FJ Childs sources...about 1857 or so...)and I will try some experiments with the gif files soon....

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:31 PM

and if I remember right Mario, you get to the Maryland Ren Faire..right down here by us...(I was there last year)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: MMario
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:32 PM

not as often as I like! (mandatory thread creep)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 10:33 PM

hey...thread creep keeps the song on top for a bit!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: MMario
Date: 25 Sep 02 - 11:12 AM

refresh.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: weepiper
Date: 25 Sep 02 - 05:43 PM

I have a photocopy of a tune called 'Malcolm Kaird's Come Again - Bagpipe way' which I think was written out from the Skene (18th century?) Manuscript. I don't have it to hand but I wonder if it fits the words.... I could get my dad to abc it if anyone's interested?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: MMario
Date: 25 Sep 02 - 07:16 PM

I'd be interested.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: weepiper
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 09:49 AM

Here we go... I've spoken to my dad (he's Phil Taylor who wrote Barfly, an abc reader for Macs) and he gave me a link to Jack Campin's site, he's the one who originally sent him the tunes. The abc for 'Malcome Kaird's Come Again' is on this page it's the second of the tunes there.

Having looked at it, some of it does indeed fit the words - there's ten parts though! Seems like a Northumbrian pipe tune in shape.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Donald Caird's Come Again
From: MMario
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 09:58 AM

Thank you weepiper