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Murray on Saltspring Origin: Lassie with the Yellow Coatie (16) RE: BS: Lassie with the yellow Coatie: Note 17 Oct 99

The words are definitely by James Duff, "the Methven Poet", flourished around 1810; they're in several anthologies (Ford, Harp of Perthshire, and also his Vagabond Songs & Ballads (without music, alas).(They're also in Duff's Poems of 1816. The tune NAME occurs elsewhere, but going by Bruce's tune, in E minor, and also by that in Robertson's Athole Collection (1884), it wasn't written to that or (probably) any other tune. It did acquire one, though, and it [or a very near relative] is found with other words, namely "Can ye lo'e me weel, lassie?", in (e.g.) Kyle's Scottish Lyric Gems, arranged by Gleadhill (Glasgow, 1882).

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