On 23/01/2014 22:30, WALSH STUART wrote:
Extensive and probing research of at least 10 minutes in google
suggests that Burns wrote the poem (or song?), "I Gaed A Waefu' Gate
Yestreen" in 1788 (or 1787). It appears with music in the Scots Musical
Museum in 1790 set to a tune in a major key. But it appears elsewhere
set to the minor key tune of "My only jo an' Dearie O" and this melody
has its own words and the melody is slightly different in different
versions.
The poem, "I Gaed A Waefu' Gate Yestreen", was composed when Burns
spent an evening with a Reverend Jeffries and he was rather taken with
the Rev's seventeen-year-old daughter. The minor key version brings its
own particular pungency to the matter.
Burns had a (wire-strung) guitar/guittar in his possessions (made by
Rauche and Hoffman and it still exists but in very poor condition) and
presumably he, or someone in his circle, played it and played the
melodies of his songs. The very bed he slept in survives in the Robert
Burns Centre in Dumfries too!
Played here on an original 18th century guitar/guittar.
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v^3tzNTIyjbg
or maybe this works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3tzNTIyjbg
Stuart
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