Annotation:Sandy is My Love
X:1 T:Alastair m’ ansachd M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air O:”A Skye Air” B:Patrick MacDonald – “Collection of Highland Vocal Airs” (Edinburgh, 1785, No. 159, p. 27) N:MacDonald was Minister of Kilmore in Argyleshire. The volume is N:dedicated to the ‘Gentlemen of the Highland Society in London’. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F V:1 F>G|A2A2 {A}f>A|TG2F2 d>e|f2d2 d>c|c2-A z c>c|c2c2 {e}dc/B/|c2-F z a>g| f2 A>fc>B|A2-Dz::f>g|a2a2 ag/f/|Tg2f2c2|{c}d2 {de}f2 d>c|{d}c6| c2d2f2|Tg4 f>g|a2g2 f>c|{c}d4 f>g|a2 bagf|g2 agfe| f2 dfdc|{c}A4 ag/f/|d2 {de}f2 dc|A2c2 A>G|F2a2 gf|Tg2f2:| V:2 clef = bass z2|F,4F,2|C,2F,2z2|B,,2B,2B,,2|F,4z2|E,2F,2B,2|A,4z2| F,4F,2|F,2B,z::A,>G,|F,2A,2F,2|B,2A,2F,2|B,2B,,2B,2|F,2A,2F,2| A,2B,2A,2|B,2B,,2 A,>G,|F,2C,2A,,2|B,,2B,2 A,>G,|F,4F,,2|C,4^C,2| D,4E,2|F,2F,,2z2|B,4B,2|F,4 C>B,|A,2F,2B,2|D2F,2:|
SANDY IS MY ONLY LOVE (Alastair m' annsachd). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The air was first printed in Rev. Patrick MacDonald's Highland Vocal Airs (1784), where he identifies it as an Isle of Skye air. MacDonald was minister of Kilmore in Argyleshire, and collected melodies from throughout the Highlands and the Western Isles. "This is one of the editor's family stock, as sung by the original compiler, to which it is so difficult to attach incident; but the melody is often fine where the individuals may be obscure, a circumstance which, for the most part, simplifies both the style and the sentiments" (Fraser).
