20 Sep 98 - 11:23 AM (#38709) Subject: Lyr Add: THE LEA-RIG (Robert Burns) From: Sorry, can't find it in DB... a great R. Burns song
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20 Sep 98 - 02:06 PM (#38727) Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE LEY-RIGG + MY AIN KIND DEARY From: Bruce O. Here's an earlier song to the same tune from David Herd's MSS, c 1776. The Ley-Rigg Will ye gang o'er the ley-rigg
[Chorus]
At thornie dyke and birken tree
Nae heard wi' kent or collie there
While others herd their ewes and lambs
Herd's MSS contains a related 4 line verse that seems to be the basis of the 8 line one that Burns quoted in the Interleaved Museum.
Here's another from 'The Merry Muses of Caledonia', 1799. My Ain Kind Deary
I'll lay thee o'er the lea-rig,
Look down ye gods from yonder sky,
Lyin' across the lee-rig,
The tune was known both as "My ain kind deary" and "The Lee-Rig". See both the Scots Tunes index and the CNTYDAN2 index on my website for early copies.
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28 Jun 05 - 04:24 PM (#1511904) Subject: RE: Lyr add The lea-rig From: GUEST,catseye@plixtel.com Hi: I have a bound book of handwritten music dated and signed 1791. It has 150 full pages of music. Song titles include:"Caber Feigh","The Irish Washerwoman" & "My Ain Kind Dearie". It seems to be mostly full of Scot & Irish Reel, etc. I've had this old book for years but I don't know too much about it. Dan |