The Foggy Dew
fiosrachadh a' chlàraidh
Àireamh a' Chlàir Thùsail
SA1952.01.B6 (B17)
Àireamh an Teip Thùsail
Notaichean a' Chlàir
Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 6 verses, but 12 repeats of the same melody; other versions have longer melody. The "foggy dew" is unexplained, but is sometimes thought to refer symbolically to chastity or virginity. This song is a version of a 1689 broadside, in the Pepys ballad collection, 'The Fright'ned York-shire Damosel, or, Fears Dispers'd by Pleasure', ([[http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/html/books-and-manuscripts/1600-1699/1689--pepys-broadside/index.htm]], accessed 4 December 2008).
Jimmy Jaffray was the third horseman at Drakemyre when Willie Mathieson was in his teens.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 7, pp. 455-459, no. 1495
Willie Mathieson's MSS I:38
Àite Clàraidh
Siorrachd - Siorrachd Obar Dheathain
Paraiste - Eilean (Eilean Bhuchain)
Baile/Àite - Eilean (Eilean Bhuchain)
Cànan
Beurla, Albais
Seòrsa
Cruinneachadh
Cruth Inneal a' Chlàir
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