Bonnie Annie Anderson

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Theme code Index	5231H 64#1H5
Also known as
Composer/Core Source	J. Scott Skinner
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Schottische/Schottis/Jennkka/Reinlander, Strathspey
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Bill Hardie
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Beauties of the North (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 19
Year of publication/Date of MS	1986
Artist	Biography:Ashley MacIsaac
Title of recording	Close to the Floor
Record label/Catalogue nr.	A & M Records 79602 2000-2
Year recorded	1992
Media
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BONNIE ANNIE ANDERSON. Scottish, Strathspey or Schottische. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Scottish fiddling giant J. Scott Skinner, first appearing in print near the end of his life in his Cairngorum Series, No. 1 (1922). "Annie Anderson" is the name of a poem published in 1920 by James Kennedy, and perhaps the inspiration for Skinner's composition. The first stanza goes:

I sat at e'en on Clochnaben,
Neist day I clamb big Benachie,
Whaur nature's charms sae gay an green
Spread lavish to the longing ee;
But naething bloomed sae blythe to see,
In gloaming gray or noonday sun,
As ae braw lass that smiled on me--
The Bonnie Annie Anderson.

Printed source: Hardie (Beauties of the North), 1986; p. 19.

Recorded source: A & M Records 79602 2000-2, Ashley MacIsaac - "Close to the Floor" (1992).

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