The Yellow Haired Laddie waltz

There are 5 recordings of this tune.

The Yellow Haired Laddie has been added to 1 tune set.

The Yellow Haired Laddie has been added to 8 tunebooks.

One setting

X: 1
T: The Yellow Haired Laddie
R: waltz

M: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:DE|F2A2 Bc|d3 e f2|A2 BA GF|(F2E2) DE|F2A2 Bc|
d3/2c/ de f2|1 AB A/F3/2 E3/2D/|D4:|2 A2 gf ed|d4||
|:de|f4 gf ed|c2 ec BA|B3/2c/ dB AF|(F2E2) DE|
F2A2 Bc|d3/2c/ de f2|1 AB A/F3/2 E3/2D/|D4:|2 A2 gf ed|d4||

Two comments

The Yellow Haired Laddie

This is a pretty Scottish air. It has both a folk sound and an eighteenth-century sound to it, and appears in many versions (both instrumental and vocal). I first discovered it while cataloging it in a musical commonplace book at Harvard’s musical special collections library (from around 1790-1810).

Re: The Yellow Haired Laddie

I remember the late great Tony Cuffe playing this on clarsach - here it is on "Youtube".

https://youtu.be/eo0tLlLsDAM

play video

Thanks for reminding me of this Micah, my flute class starts again on Monday. I think I might teach this one in memory of Tony.

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