O Lassie Art Thou Sleeping Yet?
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Oh Lassie Art Thou Sleepin' Yet?", also known as "Lassie Art Thou Sleeping Yet",<br> "The Stone Barn" (southwest Pa.), "Scotch Lassie" and "Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre"<br> is a Scottish Air and Jig in C Major (Hardings, Howe) or D Major (Bayard, Kerr,<br> Sweet). The parts are played AABB.<br> Bayard (1981) states the tune dates from the 18th century (around 1760 or earlier)<br> and has been a favorite of fiddlers and especially fifers (becoming a "standard<br> tune of martial bands" in the Eastern United States).<br> The title is the first line of poet Robert Burns's song "O Let me in this ae Night",<br> whose lyric was given final form in 1795. The poet adapted an older, more risque,<br> song of seduction called "O lassie, art thou sleeping yet" to make it acceptable<br> to publisher James Johnson for inclusion in the Scots Musical Museum.<br> A 20th century American variant, collected in southwestern Pennsylvania, can be<br> found in Bayard (1944), No. 63, listed simply as "Quadrille". The tune may belong<br> to a larger tune family, asserts Bayard, including the Irish "Christmas Eve",<br> "Our President", "Here's a Health to Our Leader" and "The Fearless Boys"; all of<br> which have developed from "some still more remote original single air" (Bayard,<br> Hill Country Tunes, p. 61).<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Harding's All Round Collection (1905),<br> Hopkins' American Veteran Fifer (1905),<br> Howe's Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's) and<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981).<br>
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