Annotation:What should a Lassie do wi an auld Man?
X:1 T:What should a Lassie do wi an auld Man? M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig Q:"Brisk" B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6 (1760, p. 5) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Emin B|efe gab|abg Te>dB|efe gab|dBB B2:| |:d|(BG)F (BA)A|(dB)B B(e/f/)g|(BG)G (BA)A|(dB)B e2d| (BG)G (BA)A|(dB)B g2a|(ba)g (fba)|(ge)e e2:|]
WHAT SHOULD A LASSIE DO WI AN AULD MAN? Scottish, Air and Jig (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was a vehicle for a song in Allan Ramsay's ballad opera The Devil of a Duke, or Trapolin's Vagaries (1733). The tune was subsequently printed in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6, (London, 1760), and Neil Stewart's Select Collection of Scots English Irish and Foreign Airs Jiggs & Marches (Edinburgh, 1788). It was also entered into the 1817 music manuscript collection of Onondoga, N.Y., flute player Daniel Henry Huntington, and the 1840 music manuscript of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria).