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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. | ||