Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on May 3rd 2007 by Crackpot.
This tune has been added to 26 tunebooks.
Also known as A Bonny Lass To Marry Me.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: A Bonny Lass To Merry Me
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
G2BG AGBG | D2BG AGEA |G2BG cBAc |BAGE ED D2:|
dedB AGAB |dgdB AG E2 | d(e/2f/2 g)B AGAB |GAGE ED D2 :|
GGBG AGBG | DDBG AGEA | GGBG dBAB | GAGE ED D2:|
dgBg dgBg | egGB AB E2 | dgBg egAB | GAGE ED D2 :|
g2bg agbg | d2 bg agea |gbag edBg | GAGE EDD2 :|
edBg edBg |edBG AB E2 | edBg edBA | GAGE EDD2 :|
Caledonian Flute - Chris Norman.
First learnt from the Chris Norman CD of the Caledonian Flute. Notes here converted to abc from Oswalds Caledonian Collection for the flute page 121.
I play this (as does Chris Norman) immediately following Lend me Your Loom, Lass. Originally a piece which thoroughly intimidated me when I first heard it on the CD, it is not as tricky as one thinks. The rhythm in part 4 I find particularly satisfying if I manage to get it right.
Quite what historical significance of borrowing a lassie's loom and then marrying her has? Your gues is as good as mine.
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Crackpot
This is a version of the Noon Lasses http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1729
# Posted on May 3rd 2007 by Dow
The fourth part is new, but it is unmistakeably the same tune as the noon lassies. However, I note that the Noon Lassies version has been carefully adjusted to avoid almost all C-naturals! Makes it even easier on the flute. Maybe I should adjust all fast tunes with C Naturals to do the same?
This version comes from Oswald's published in the 1740s - is there an older reference anywhere else for the tune?
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by Crackpot
Oh the Britches...
# Posted on May 4th 2007 by kilfarboy
Lend me Your Loom, Lass.
any chance you could do the sheet music for Lend me Your Loom, Lass. ...got the Chris Norman CD too and obsessed by this tune...small tantalizing glimps of it in the notes..i would love to play it?
# Posted on September 24th 2008 by Fithomson