Annotation:Jockey's ta'en the parting Kiss
X:1 T:Jockey's ta'en the parting Kiss M:C| L:1/8 R:Air S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 206) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D D3E F2F2|GFED E4|D>E GFED|F2A2 d4| f3e edcB|A>BAF E4|edcB (ABd)G|F2E2 D4|| d3e f2f2|gfed e4|d3e e2 fe|c2B2 A4| fedB ABdF|GFED E4|d3B ABAG|F2E2 D4||
JOCKEY'S TA'EN THE PARTING KISS. AKA and see "Bonnie Lassie Take a Man." Scottish, Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Jockey's ta'en the parting kiss" is the name of a song written in 1795 by Ayrshire poet Robert Burns, who sent it to James Johnson for inclusion in the Scots Musical Museum, vol. VI (Song 570, p. 589). Burns was silent about the origins of the melody and lyric, however, the air (albeit modified somewhat) is "Bonny Lassie tak a man" which was a vehicle for a song in Michell's ballad opera Highland Fair (1731). The first stanza goes:
Jockey's ta'en the parting kiss,
O'er the mountains he is gane;
And with him is a' my bliss,
Nought but griefs with me remain.
Spare my luve, ye winds that blaw,
Plashy sleets and beating rain!
Spare my luve, thou feathery snaw,
Drifting o'er the frozen plain.