The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66793 Message #2838486
Posted By: Jim Dixon
13-Feb-10 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Cold Haily Rainy Night
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Cold Haily Rainy Night
I found a copy of LET ME IN THIS AE NIGHT in Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., Second Edition*, by George Paton (Edinburgh: James Dickson and Charles Elliot, 1776), page 167.
--Despite that The Traditional Ballad Index has marked it "Earliest Date: 1976" !
The words are nearly the same as those given in the DT, so I won't repeat them here.
There is no musical notation in that book.
*I haven't seen the first edition.