Tune Req: The Blue-Eyed Lassie (Robert Burns)

Subject: Tune for Rab Burn's Blue Eyed Lassie
From: GUEST,Marion
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 06:44 AM

I'm trying to find this song on CD or tape but can't find it anywhere. Any ideas? Thank you for your help.

Subject: RE: Tune for Rab Burn's Blue Eyed Lassie
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:57 AM

Burn's song to Robert Riddel's tune "The blue ey'd lassie" is in 'The Scots Musical Museum', #294, where it comences "I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen'

Subject: RE: Tune for Rab Burn's Blue Eyed Lassie
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 01:46 PM

Of course, you don't have to go back that far.  Many collected editions of Burns include the (written) music for his songs; Burns: Poems and Songs (Oxford University Press) ought to be easy enough to find.  You may have more difficulty finding recorded versions, however; the entry in  The Burns Encyclopaedia for  Jean Jaffray (about whom the song was written) mentions that the air, by Robert Riddell, "spans two octaves, and is very nearly unsingable".  The text is available online, here:  I Gaed A Waefu' Gate Yestreen.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Tune for Rab Burn's Blue Eyed Lassie
From: GUEST,Marion
Date: 20 Apr 00 - 09:14 AM

Thanks for the input. I liked reading the Burns Encyclopaedia. I'll probably go there a lot now. I had wondered if any singer had tackled this song. Maybe someone will in the future. You'd need a very good voice.