Come Along and Keep Your Promise

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Theme code Index	5315 5334
Also known as	Teann a nall is cum do ghealladh
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Strathspey
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	3 flats
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Simon Fraser
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles (The)
Tune and/or Page number	No. 144, p. 58
Year of publication/Date of MS	1816 (reprinted 1874)
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COME ALONG AND KEEP YOUR PROMISE (Teann a nall is cum do ghealladh). Scottish, Strathspey. C Minor. Standard tuning. AB. This tune "is an air to which the editor has heard his father sing several good verses, but is infinitely better as a dancing tune, and forms an exquisite medley with No. 145 ("I'll Kiss the Bonny Lassie, Oh!"), which follows it" (Fraser). The title perhaps references a promise to "come out" for the 1745 rebellion.

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 144, p. 58. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 267.

X:1
T:Come Along and Keep Your Promise
M:C
L:1/8
R:Strathspey
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection  (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:Eb
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