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Comin' Thro' the Rye: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Comin' Thro' the Rye, sung by the soprano, in G, from D4 to E5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries the tune, most often on its low D, where every "Gin a body" begins, and reaches its top E only where the third line runs into the fourth, on "I!" and "Yet" in verse 1 and on "I;" and "But" in verse 2.

Range
D4 to E5
Key
G
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About Comin' Thro' the Rye

Words: traditional Scottish, after Robert Burns

Tune: traditional Scottish

Comin' Thro' the Rye is a Scots song that Robert Burns reworked from an older one for James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum. The earliest printing we have seen is in the Museum's fifth volume, which libraries date to 1796. It gives the song twice: Burns's set, with the chorus "Oh Jenny's a' weet poor body", to one tune, then on the next page an unsigned "2d Sett", the tune sung today, with an earlier form of our words. William Stenhouse later wrote that the music-seller John Watlen "altered the first strain of the former tune a little, and published it with the new words. His edition had a considerable run." John Glen dated Watlen's printing of that second set to 1794, before the Museum's. Our tune and words are read from G. F. Graham's Songs of Scotland of 1849, in G, with four parts of our own. "Gin" means "if", and "ilka" "each". This is two verses for 2 to 4 singers, at a moderate pace.

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