Annotation:Donald Caird

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 DONALD CAIRD('S COME AGAIN). Scottish, Strathspey. The melody is mentioned by Alexander Campbell in Albyn's Anthology (1812) when he states in a footnote, "This air is a dancing measure or slow strathspey, danced by two highlandmen with appropriate gesture, but without the fling or gambol peculiar to the quicker strathspey or reel." "Donald Caird's Come Again" is the name of a poem written in 1818 by Sir Walter Scott, that begins: Donald Caird's come again! Donald Caird's come again! Tell the news in brugh and glen, Donald Caird's come again! Scott's lyric was adapted to an older melody called "Malcolm Caird's Come Again."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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