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FAMOUS SONGS
44 Tom he was a piper1 s son,
He learned to play when he was young. But all the tunes that he could play Was * Over the hills and far away,' Over the hills and a great way off, And the wind will blow ray top-knot off."
In the fifth volume " Jockey's Lamentation" opens thus, Jockey being changed to Jackey :
" Jackey met with Jenny fair
Betwixt the dawning and the day,
And Jackey now is full of care,
For Jenny stole my (sic) heart away."
The burden is:
" And 'tis over the hills and far away The wind has blown my plaid away."
Allan Ramsay Scotified these words, inevitably, in vol. ii. of " The Tea-Table Miscellany," 1733, but any one with half an eye, and blind in that, can see that they are not true Scottish. The tune, by the way, is also to be found in the " Dancing Master." The original words in English seem to have been called " A Popular New Ballad, entitled' The Wind hath blown my Plaid away, or, a discourse betwixt a young Maid and the Elphin Knight/ to be sung with its own pleasant new tune!' A copy of this is in the Pepysian
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