Annotation:Gae to the kye wi' me Jamie
X:1 T:Gae to the kye wi' me Jamie M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:"Briskly" B:Edinburgh Repository of Music (1818,p. 119) F:https://archive.org/details/edinburghreposit00rugg/page/118/mode/2up Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Dmin A>BA A2G FED|F>GF A2f e3|A>BA A2G FED|F2G Ad^c d3:| |:A>BA f2f ed^c|A>BA f2f e3|A>BA f2f efg|{g}f>ed Ad^c d3!fermata!:|
GAE TO THE KYE WI' ME JAMIE. Scottish, Air and Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Gae to the kye (cows) wi' me Jamie" is a variant of Daniel Dow's "Gae to the ky wi me johnnie," published in 1775. By the time the tune was published in the Edinburgh Repository of Music more than forty years later, the tonality, while somewhat ambiguous in the original, had shifted from major to minor and the melody altered somewhat. The tune was also entered in volume one (p. 205, as "Gae to the eye wi' me") of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman.
