The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 10/Ballad Airs from Manuscript/Ballad 42

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42. Clerk Colvill.
Abbotsford MS., "Scottish Songs."[1]

music = {
    \language "english"
    {
        { \new PianoStaff <<
            { \new Staff <<
                \set Staff.midiInstrument = "violin"
                \relative c' {
                    \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 4 = 100
                    \key a \minor
                    \time 3/4
                    
                    \repeat volta 2 {
                        \stemUp d8 g g4 g |
                        a a8 \stemDown d4. |
                        \stemUp c8 g a4. r8 |
                        d, g g4 g |
                        a \stemDown a8( d4.) |
                        \stemUp c8 a g4. r8
                    }
                    \repeat volta 2 {
                        \grace{a8(} g8.) f16 d4 f |
                        g a g8 f |
                        \grace{a8(} g8.) f16 d4 f |
                        g a g |
                    }
                }
            >> }
        >> }
    }
}
\header {
    tagline = "" % no footer
}
\score {
  \music
  \layout { }
}
\score {
  \unfoldRepeats {
    \music
  }
  \midi { }
}

42. Clerk Colvill. (Revised.)

music = {
    \language "english"
    {
        { \new PianoStaff <<
            { \new Staff <<
                \set Staff.midiInstrument = "violin"
                \relative c' {
                    \tempo \markup{\italic{Slow.}}
                    \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 4 = 80
                    \key a \minor
                    \time 3/4
                    
                    \stemUp \partial 4 d8.( g16) |
                    g2 g4 |
                    a2 a4 |
                    \stemDown d2 \stemUp c8( g) |
                    a2 d,8.( g16) |
                    g2 g4 |
                    a2 a4 |
                    \stemDown d2 \stemUp c8( a) |
                    g2 \grace{a8(} g8.)( f16) |
                    
                    d4( f) g |
                    \grace{a8(} g4)( f) d |
                    g( a) g |
                    f2 d8.( g16) |
                    g2 g4 |
                    a2 a4 |
                    \stemDown d2 c8( a) |
                    g2
                    \bar "|."
                }
                \addlyrics {
                    Clerk Col -- vill and his la -- dye gay
                }
            >> }
        >> }
    }
}
\header {
    tagline = "" % no footer
}
\score {
  \music
  \layout { }
}
\score {
  \unfoldRepeats {
    \music
  }
  \midi { }
}

  1. Also noted in Glenriddel's hand in the fly-leaf at the end of Vol. I of his copy of Herd, 1776, in the Signet Library.
    W. Macmath.