Tune Req: Hey the Dusty Miller

Subject: Hey The Dusty Miller
From: MMario
Date: 26 Nov 02 - 11:58 AM

There is a midi with this at midi of the month and also at Rick's Music Pages

But (to me) the melody sseems to have too many beats for the lyrics.

Can anyone fit them together sensibly?

Subject: RE: Hey The Dusty Miller
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Nov 02 - 12:48 PM

The tune is from Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (no. 144).
The words "coat" (twice) and "groat" are sung with two notes.
~Masato

Subject: RE: Hey The Dusty Miller
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Nov 02 - 01:13 PM

Found its sheet music at the Levy collection.

Title: Dusty Miller.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: na
Publication: Baltimore: Carr's Music Store, n.d.
Form of Composition: strophic
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Hey the dusty Miller, And his dusty coat
Subject: Peddlers
Subject: Courtship & love
Call No.: Box: 038 Item: 041

Subject: RE: Hey The Dusty Miller
From: MMario
Date: 26 Nov 02 - 01:16 PM

*grovel, grovel, grovel*

I didn't look at Levy - Masato I should have!

Thank you!

Subject: RE: Hey The Dusty Miller
From: masato sakurai
Date: 26 Nov 02 - 01:43 PM

Also in:

James Kinsley, ed., The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1968, p. 390)

James Kinsley, ed., Burns: Poems and Songs (Oxford, 1969, p. 311)

James C. Dick, The Songs of Robert Burns (1903; rpt. Folklore Associates, 1962, p, 161)

Norman Buchan, ed., 101 Scottish Songs (Collins, 1962, p. 134)

George Alexander, ed., Maver's Collection of Genuine Scottish Melodies (Robert Maver, [ca. 1900], p. 168)