Annotation:Scotsman over the Border
X:2 T:Scots came o’er the Borders, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:Colclough – Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (c. 1830) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D D3 F2A | dfe e2A | BcB B2 (g/b/) | baf fed | DED F2A | dd/e/f/e/ d2A |{B/c/}d2B AFA | D2F FED :| |: (3A/B/c/ | dfa afa | baf fed | dfa bc'd' | def Te2d | dfa afa | baf fed | (B/c/d)B AFA | dAF FED :| P:"Variations" DFA DFA| dfe d2A | DGB DGB | def e2d | DFA DFA | dfe d2A | BdB AGA | D2F FED :| |: dfa dfa | baf fed | df/g/a/f/ | af/g/a/f/ | def e2d | dfa dfa | baf fed | dBB AGA |{B/c/}d2F FED :|
SCOTSMAN OVER THE BORDER. AKA and see "All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border," "Carraroe Jig (The)," "Charlie over the water," "Scotch come over the Border," "Blue Bonnets Jig," "Blue Bonnets over the Border (1)," "Ettrick and Teviotdale," "March March," "Scotchman over the Border," "Over the Border (3)." Also see "Mist on the Meadow," "Mist in the Glen." Irish, American; Jig (6/8 time). USA, southwestern Pa. D Major (most versions): D Major/Mixolydian (Taylor). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B (Feldman & O’Doherty): AABB (most versions): AA'BB' (Beisswenger): AABBCCDD (Kennedy). The tune is a form of the Scottish jig "Blue Bonnets over the Border (1)," itself a variant of the 3/4 time "O Dear Minnie/Mother (What Shall I Do?)" which in the 18th century was fashioned into a 4/4 dancing piece variously called "Braes of Auchtertyre (1) (The)," "Belles of Tipperary (1)," and "Beaus of Albany (1)." Both Stenhouse and Bayard, contradicting Gow, think that the "Braes of Auchtertyre" is derived from "O Dear Minnie." The melody is also similar to "Carraroe Jig (The)." The jig appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript collections of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon James Goodman as "Charlie over the water" and in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland (1903) as “Blue Bonnets Jig.”
The tune was recorded in New York on a 78 RPM disc by Paddy Killoran (1904-1965) in October, 1934 (paired with “Tenpenny Bit”). Killoran, a native of Emlagation, near Ballymote, County Sligo, emigrated to New York in 1922, settled in the Bronx, recorded, played and owned a bar. Due to Killoran's influential recording, the tune is sometimes associated with County Sligo repertory.
