Annotation:Hey Ca' Thro'

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 HEY, CA' THROUGH. Scottish, Air (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Cole): AB (Gatherer): AABB (Kennedy). The song (whose title means ('Hey, work away') appears in John Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 4 (1792, p. 405). The lyric, which is usually attributed to Robert Burns, begins: Up wi' carls of Dysart,............carls = old men And the lads o' Buckh'ven And the Kimmers o' Largo,......kimmer = gossips And the lasses o' Leven. Hey ca' thro' ca' thro For we hae mickle a do, Hey ca' thro' ca' thro for we hae mickle a do. John Glen (1900) could find no earlier appearance of the melody.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 70. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 21. Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 27, p. 7. Hamilton's Universal Tunebook (Glasgow). Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 100.  Recorded sources:

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