I Ha’e A Wife O’ Ma Ain slip jig

A Scottish slip jig,transcribed from Ossian’s first album.

Also recorded by Syncopace.

I ha’e a wife o’ my ain,
I’ll partake wi’ naebody,
I’ll tak cuckold frae nane,
I’ll gi’e cuckold tae naebody.
I ha’e a penny tae spend,
There, thanks tae naebody,
I ha’e naething tae lend,
I’ll borrow frae naebody.

I am naebody’s lord,
I’ll be slave tae naebody;
I ha’e a guid broad sword,
I’ll tak’ dunts frae naebody,
I’ll be merry and free,
I’ll be sad for naebody,
If naebody cares for me,
I’ll care for naebody.

Key signature: A Dorian (B Dorian in comments)
Submitted on June 11th 2007 by Pierre Commes.
https://thesession.org/tunes/7337

This Ossian recording :https://thesession.org/recordings/display/1383
but it is not linking . Apart from playing G2 not ~G2 the fiddle on that recording is doing something close to this version from Gow, lifted straight from "The Fiddlers Companion".
X:1
T:I hae a wife o’ my ain
M:9/8
L:1/8
S:Gow – 1st Repository (1799)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:E Minor
EFE ~G2A B3|EFE G2A BGE|EFE ~G2A B^cd|DED {^c}d2B AFD:|
g>ag fgf e3|EFE ~G2A BGE|g>ag fgf e3|DED {^c}d2B AFD|g>ag fgf e3|
EFE ~G2A BGE|g>ag fgf efg|DED DdB AFD||

Am finding it a fun beginner tune on flute. Not many notes to learn but plenty else to work at.

Jimmy Power playes a slightly different Version from these nice little scottish tune on his Album Irish Dances from 1967, but he named it The Derry.

Setting X:4 is as given with Burn’s words (see above) in The Scots Musical Museum vol4 p. 364

Key signature and lack of beaming as in the source.

I see that the conventional 9/8 beaming has been put back. I have it like that to play it as a dance tune but I had carefully spaced the characters so that it would come out as in the printed source. It is with the words for a song (which are given above), so the intention may, as is often the case, have been for the words to influence rhythm an accent.

Fair enough, if that’s the way it works here. Who looses ? Who gains ?

The High Level Ranters play a slip jig called "A Wife of my Own", but I think it might be a slightly different tune, and has 3 parts.