Annotation:My Appie
X:1 T:My Appie M:3/8 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Slow" B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 11 (1760, p. 129) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin A>c|d4c2|d2G2A2|c2 (dc)(BA)|c2F2A2|d4 c2| d2g2f2|d3c T(B>A)|G4::d2|g>a b2a2|g2d2=e2|f>g a2g2| f2F2d2|g>a b2a2|g>f d2c2|d2g2^f2|g4d2|g>a b2a2| g2d2=e2|f>g a2g2|(fd)(cA)(GF)|B4 c2|(d2g2)f2| d3c T(B>A)|G4::B>c|d2 (GA)(Bc)|d2G2 (fd)|c2 (FG)(AB)| c2F2 (f=e)|d2 (GA)(Bc)|(db)(ag)(^fg)|d3c TB>A|G4:| |:(ba)|(gf) d2 (ba)|(gf)d2 (ag)|(fd) c2 (ag)|(fd) c2 (ba)|(gf) d2c2| B3 (3cBc|d2b2a2|g4 (ba)|(gf) d2 (ba)|g2 (df)(=eg)|(fg)(ag)(fd)| (cd)(cA) (GF)|(Bd)(c_e)(dg)|(^f2g2) (c>_e)|d3c T(B>A)|G4:|]
MY APPIE. AKA and see "Eppie Adair." Scottish, Air (3/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The melody is the air to a song contributed by Robert Burns to Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3 (1788, No. 281, p. 290). The lyric in the Museum goes:
'An' O, my Eppie My Jewel, my Eppie!
Wha wad na be happy Wi' Eppie Adair!
By love, and by beauty, By law, and by duty;
I swear to be true to my Epie Adair!
By love, and by beauty, By law, and by duty;
I swear to be true to my Eppie Adair.'
A' pleasure exile me,
Dishonour defile me,
If e'er I beguile thee,
My Eppie Adair!.
