Annotation:Will ye no' come back again?
X:1 T:Will ye no' come back again? M:3/4 L:1/4 O:Scotland K:G P:A G2 B|A2 G|E2 G|D3|d2 e|d2 B|BAG|A3|\ B2 B|A2 G|E>G E|D3|e e e|d2 B|cBA|G3|| P:B B2 d|d2 e|B2 d|d3|g2 f|e2 d|e d B|A3|\ B2 B|A2 G|E2 G|D3|e e e|d2 B|cBA|G3|
WILL YE NO' COME BACK AGAIN? AKA and see "Bonnie Charlie's Gone Awa'." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). F Major (Neil): A Major (Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Neil): AA'B (Sweet). "Will ye no' come back again?" is a song by Lady (Baroness) Nairne (1766-1845), born Carolina Oliphant, to a tune by Neil Gow Junior (1795-1823), the famous Scots fiddler Niel Gow's namesake and grandson. The title refers to the exiled Bonnie Prince Charlie and reflects her Jacobite upbringing and it "is considered to be among the last of the earnest and spontaneous Jacobite songs" (Neil, 1991). The tune is the same as that of the song “Mo Ghile Mear.”
Bonnie Charlie's now awa'
Safely owre the friendly main;
Mony a heart will break in twa,
Should he ne'er come back again
Will ye no' come back again?
Will ye no' come back again?
Better lo'ed ye canna be
Will ye no' come back again?
Cazden (et al, 1982) finds a derivation of the tune in use in the Catskill Mountains (New York) for a folk hymn tune called "My Lord Knows the Way."
