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A copy of a song entitled "Blew Cap for Me" is in '''Antidote against Melancholy''' (1661, pg. 29), the refrain of which is 'If ever I have a man, blew cap for me' [Robert Burns, Robert Riddell, '''Notes on Scottish Song''']. 'Blue Cap' refers to a person from Scotland. Anne Gilchrist (in her 1939 article "Some Additional Notes on the Traditional History of Certain Ballad-Tunes in the Dancing Master") quotes Morrison in his '''Itinerary''' (1598):  
A copy of a song entitled "Blew Cap for Me" is in '''Antidote against Melancholy''' (1661, pg. 29), the refrain of which is 'If ever I have a man, blew cap for me' [Robert Burns, Robert Riddell, '''Notes on Scottish Song''']. 'Blue Cap' refers to a person from Scotland. Anne Gilchrist (in her 1939 article "Some Additional Notes on the Traditional History of Certain Ballad-Tunes in the Dancing Master") quotes Morrison in his '''Itinerary''' (1598):  
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The husbandmen in Scotland, the servants, and almost all the country did wear coarse cloth made at home of grey of sky color and flat blew caps very broad.
''The husbandmen in Scotland, the servants, and almost all the country did wear coarse cloth made at home of grey of sky color and flat blew caps very broad.''
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A version of the melody is contained in the Skene manuscript, albeit the first part is set in common time.  
A version of the melody is contained in the Skene manuscript, albeit the first part is set in common time.  
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