Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 27 tunebooks.
Also known as I'll Get Married In My Auld Claes, My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: My Wife's A Wanton Wee Thing
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
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ABA FDF|A3=c3|G=cG ECE|G3 B3|
AdA FDF|A3 a2g|fdf ece|d3 F2G|
AdA FDF|AdA FDF|G=cG E=CE|G=cG E=CE|
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My Wife's A Wanton Wee Thing
Transcribed from the playing of the Battlefield Band.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
My Wife's a wanton wee thing.
This is a very old (and very good) Borders pipe tune. It is in the Dixon manuscript from the middle of the eighteenth century. Of course, border tunes this old were themes with variations. Dixon's go onto two fullsides of A4.You only get the merest hint of this in the version posted
Noel
Angels of the North
# Posted on January 18th 2004 by noelbats
My Wife's A Wanton Wee Thing
Where can I find the Dixon version?
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
"My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing" ~ endless variations aside
Let's not forget the song and Robbie Burns, on the tune's earlier title "My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing":
My wife's a wanton, wee thing,
My wife's a wanton, wee thing,
My wife's a wanton, wee thing,
She winna be guided by me.
She play'd the loon or she was married,
She play'd the loon or she was married,
She glar'd the loon or she was married,
She'll do it again or she die.
She sell'd her coat and she drank it,
She sell'd her coat and she drank it,
She row'd hersell in a blanket,
She winna be guided for me.
She mind't na when I forbade her,
She mind't na when I forbade her,
I took a rung and I claw'd her,
And a braw gude bairn was she.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by ceolachan
Some also sing the first as a repeating chorus:
My wife's a wanton wee thing,
My wife's a wanton wee thing,
My wife's a wanton wee thing,
She winna be guided by me.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by ceolachan
"My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing "
Chorus:
She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a lo'esome wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o' mine!
I never saw a fairer,
I never lo'ed a dearer,
And neist my heart I'll wear her,
For fear my jewel tine.
The warld's wrack, we share o't;
The warstle and the care o't,
Wi' her I'll blythely bear it,
And think my lot divine.
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by ceolachan
"My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing" ~ a la Cape Breton
"Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes"
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
Cranford Publications, 1994
ISBN: 0-9691181-4-7
Page 44: "My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing"
32 bar jig in G Mixolydian ~ and a damned nice dance tune...
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by ceolachan
"Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland:
The Fiddler's Tune-Book"
Edited by Peter Kennedy
Mallinson Publications, 1994
ISBN: 1-899512-14-4
Page 49, Tune #194: "My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing"
32 bars again, though three parts, in D Mixolydian...
# Posted on December 5th 2005 by ceolachan
"The Bride's a Bonny Wee Thing"
Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2775
# Posted on December 6th 2005 by ceolachan