My Love is But a Lassie Yet
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"My Love is But a Lassie Yet", also known as "My Lover's but a Lady Yet", "Big Muddy",<br> "Buffalo Nickel", "Chinky Pin", "Chinquapin/Chinquipin", "Crumb Creek Posey",<br> "Cumberland Square Eight", "Darling Child", "The Duke of York", "The Farmer Had a Dog",<br> "Fourth of July", "The Gordons Hae the Girding o't", "Hair in the Butter",<br> "Hornets Nest Reel", "I'm My Momma's Darling Child", "The King's Head" (a floating title in Pa.),<br> "Lady Badinscoth's Reel", "Lead Out", "Lindsay Munnell Tune", "Love Somebody, Yes I Do!",<br> "Midnight Serenade", "Miss Farquharson's Reel", "Missouri Mule", "Old Kingdom",<br> "Old Taylor", "Reel de la politique", "Reel des montagnes", "Richmond Blues",<br> "Soapsuds Over the Fence", "Sweet Sixteen", "Ten Nights in a Bar Room",<br> "Too Young to Marry", "Tripping on the Mountain", "The Virginia Reel" (a floating title in Pa.),<br> "The White Cockade" (a floating title in Pa.), "Yellow Eyed Cat" is a Scottish, Irish,<br> English and American air, reel, polka (Ireland), pipe march and country dance tune in<br> D Major (most versions) or C Major (Huntington). The parts are played AB (Howe, Silberberg,<br> Sweet) or AABB (most versions).<br> This melody has been used as an air, country dance, quadrille,<br> Scots Measure, reel, pipe march and polka.<br> The most common title, "My Love is but a Lassie Yet", is used because of two songs composed<br> to it, one by Robert Burns and the other by James Hogg<br> The tune itself first appeared in print in Bremner's Scots Reels of 1757 as "Miss<br> Farquharson's Reel". The writer of Gems of Scottish Song asserts that the original<br> title of the tune was "Lady Badinscoth's Reel".<br> In modern times the tune is often<br> played in a set to accompany the country dance "TheDashing White Sergeant".<br> In Ireland, the tune was converted to a polka and played under the titles<br> "My Love is But a Lassie" and "Tripping on the Mountain".<br> The melody is widespread in America. Bayard considers it the most<br> widespread instrumental folk tune in Pennsylvania tradition. It seems<br> mostly to have been known as an instrumental air among folk musicians in general. Bayard<br> gives 22 versions in Dance to the Fiddle.<br> The tune was printed under the title "Richmond Blues" in George P. Knauff's Virginia<br> Reels, volume II (Baltimore, 1839) and was still cited as commonly played for country<br> dances in Orange County, New York, in the 1930's. In the South, old-time musicians know<br> the tune under the title "Sweet Sixteen" and "Too Young to Marry", among several other<br> titles. It was well-known to musicians in both North and South during the<br> Civil War era. It was known in Quebect as "Reel des montagnes".<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs,<br> vol. 2), c. 1785<br> Alexander's Alexander’s New Scrap Book, vol. 6 (c. 1845),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Bruce & Emmett's Drummer's and Fifer's Guide (1880),<br> Ford's Traditional Music of America (1940),<br> Gems of Scottish Song (1894's),<br> Gow's The Vocal Melodies of Scotland (1822),<br> Graham's Popular Songs of Scotland (1908),<br> Hopkins's American Veteran Fifer (1905),<br> Howe's Diamond School for the Violin) (1981) and 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867),<br> Jarman's Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes (1938),<br> Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3 (1787–1803),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. 1 (1951),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1875),<br> Miller & Perron's New England Fiddler's Repertoire (1983),<br> Neil's The Scots Fiddle (1991),<br> Ostling's Music of '76 (1939),<br> Pickow's Hammered Dulcimer (1979),<br> Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 2 (1820),<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Smith's Scottish Minstrel, vol. 5 (1820–24),<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981),<br> Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967),<br> Trim's Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy (1990) and<br> Wilson's A Companion to the Ballroom (1840).<br> It was recorded by John Wynne & John McEvoy on Pride of the West (2007),<br> John McKenna & James Morrison (1928),<br> F&W String Band on F&W String Band (1969),<br> Tom Ennis & John Gerrity (1922).<br>
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