Annotation:Bridegroom Geits (The)
X:1
T:Bridegroom greets when the Sun gaes tee, The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Air
N:"Old"
B:Donald Grant – Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21, p. 26)
B:The volume was perhaps first issued c. 1790, from a penciled note in a copy.
N:The collection was dedicated to Mrs. Col. Grant of Grant (“Sir James and
N:Lady Grant of Grant”).
S:https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814112
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:F
(A>c)|{c}d3f (c<A) (G>F)|c2G2G2 (A>c)|{c}d3f c>A G>F|{F}G3A f3g|a>gf>d f>dc>A|
B>AG>F G2 (A<c)|d3c A2 (f>d)|{d}c2A2A2::(A>c)|d3A f3A|c2 (A>G) G2 (A>c)|d3Af3A|
c>Ac>d f3g|a3f g3d|f2A2 {A}G2 (A<c)|d3e f>ef>g|{fg}a2A2A2::(A<c)|d>Af>A c>Af>A|
c2 (A>G) G2 (A<c)|d>Af>A c>Af>A|c>Ac>d f3g|a>fg>d f>cd<f|c>AF>A G2 (A<c)|
d2 d>c {B}A2 f>d|{d}c2A2A2::(a>g)|f>af>c A>cA>F|c2 A>G G2 a>g|f>af>c A>cA>F|
c<ag>e f3g|a>gb>a g>fd>g|f>dc>A {A}G2 (A<c)|d3c {B}A2 (f>d)|{d}c2A2A2||
BRIDEGROOM GEITS, THE. AKA - "The bridegroom grat," "Bridegroom greets when the Sun gaes tee (The)." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The title may be a variation of Psalm 19.5, "The sun comes out like a bridegroom from his bedroom [wedding chamber]. It rejoices like an ·athlete [strong man] eager to run a race." The basic melodic strain was fitted by Lady Anne Lindsay to the words of her "Auld Robin Gray." However, notes Walker (1924), "it has now been completely supplanted by a nineteenth-century English production of vastly inferior quality." Walker goes on to decry the practice in that century of London composers deliberately composing pseudo-Scottish tunes, "a favourite industry."
