Annotation:Whaur will bonnie Ann lie i' the cauld nights o' winter O!
X: 1 T: WHAUR WILL BONNIE ANN LIE I' THE CAULD NIGHTS T:O' WINTER O! O: Scottish air. %R: strathspey B: W. Hamilton "Universal Tune-Book" Vol. 2 Glasgow 1846 p.110 #3 S: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/itma.dl.printmaterial/book_pdfs/hamiltonvol2web.pdf Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: C L: 1/16 K: A % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - cB |\ A2a2a3f (ef)(ed) {d}c4 | B2{f}=g2g3e (de)(d=c) {c}B4 |A2a2a3f (ef)(ed) d3e | (dc)(BA) (BA)(Bd) c2A2A2 :||: (cd) |(ed)(cB) (AB)(cd) e2e2 {d}c4 | (d=c)(BA) (=GA)(Bc) d2d2 {c}B4 |(ed)(^cB) (AB)(cd) e3e c3e | (dc)(BA) (GA)(Bd) c2A2A2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
WHAUR WILL BONNIE ANN LIE I' THE CAULD NIGHTS O' WINTER O! AKA - "O' Where Will Bonnie Ann Lie." AKA and see "Red House," "Where will Our Good Man Lay? (1)." Scottish, Air (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Anne Gilchrist, in her article "Evolution of a Tune: 'Red House' and 'John Peel'" [1] links this tune with Alfred Percival Graves (1795-1886) famous song about the Cumberland huntsman, John Peel, and a Playford country dance of 1695, "Red House," also used as a vehicle for Air IX in Polly (1729). Poet Alan Ramsay used it in his Tea-table Miscellany for his songs "Whaur would our guidman lie?//Where will Our Good Man Lay? (1)" and also under the title of "Whaur would bonnie Annie lie?" for a song called "The Cordial." John Anderson used the melody for his "innocuous but rather silly song" "O, what can make my Annie sigh?"<ref>R.A. Smith, Scottish Minstrel vol. 6,c. 1824. <ref>
Gilchrist finds the rhyme was part of the dance, "which seems to have lent itself to humourous improvisation, the various members of the household or social company being, as one may suppose, assigned divers more or less uncomfortable sleeping-berths, beginning with the goodman himself relegated to a perch--"Up among the hen-bauks"--that is, the rafters of beams on which the hens roosed at night!" Remnants of the "Bonnie Ann" song could be found in children's play ring games still played in some areas at the turn of the 20th century, where "Bonnie Ann/Annie" is in the middle of the ring.
Poet Robert Burns directed his "Address to a Woodlark" be sung to this air, though Gilchirst says it was a "bad misfit," corrected when the song was sung to "Loch Erroch Side."
- ↑ Anne Gilchrist,"Evolution of a Tune: 'Red House' and 'John Peel'", Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1941, p. 80.