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Dance I'll mak' ye fain to follow me 3046

Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4   (Progression: 213)

Devised by
William Boag (18C) (1797)
Intensity
800 800 844 866 = 54% (1 turn), 41% (whole dance)
Formations
Steps
  • Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
Published in
Recommended Music
Extra Info
I'll Mak' Ye Fain To Follow Me

William Stenhouse says in reference to “I’ll Mak’ Ye Fain to Follow Me”, “Ramsay inserted a song, by an anonymous hand, to this lively old tune, beginning ‘Adieu, for a while, my native green plains’ in the second volume of his Tea Table Miscellany; but he omitted the original song, beginning ‘As late by a soldier I chanced to pass’, now inserted in the Museum. The tune appears in Oswald’s Collection, and in many others.”

Although James Johnson did include “I’ll Mak’ You Be Fain to Follow Me” in his The Scots Musical Museum, Volume 3, 1790, and he gave no credit in the index as was usual, the song is not the original as Stenhouse states. The song published by Johnson was by Robert Burns and is called “As Late by a Sodger I Chanced to Pass” to the tune “I’ll Mak’ You Fain to Follow Me”.

As late by a sodger I chanced to pass,
I heard him courtin a bonie young lass,
“My hinny, my life, my dearest”, quo he,
“I’ll mak you be fain to follow me.”
“Gin I should follow you a poor sodger lad
Ilk ane o’ my cummers wad think I was mad.
For battles I never shall lang to see,
I’ll never be fain to follow thee.”
“To follow me, I think ye may be glad,
A part o’ my supper, a part o’ my bed,
A part o’ my bed, wherever it be.
I’ll mak you be fain to follow me.
Come try my knapsack on your back,
Alang the king’s high-gate we’ll pack;
Between Saint Johnston and bony Dundee,
I’ll mak you be fain to follow me.”

The song seems a bit inconclusive and the soldier never mentions any inducement save sharing a bit of supper, part of a bed and a heavy knapsack strapped to her back. The young lady’s companions would, indeed, think she was mad! There is no record of her reply, which could only have been, as in “The Laird of Cockpen”, “Na!”

I'll mak' ye fain to follow me 3/4L · J32
1–
1W casts off 2, 1M following, to 3pl opposite sides (2c+3c up) ; 1M casts up 2, 1W following, to own places (2c+3c down)
9–
1c cross RH, cast off one (2c up) ; cross LH, cast off one and lead up to 1cnrs
17–
1c set to and turn corners
25–
Reels3{6} on the sides | 1c cross (2,1,3).
I'll mak' ye fain to follow me 3/4L · J32
1-8
1L followed by 1M cast to 3rd place opposite sides, 1M followed by 1L dance back to places
9-16
1s cross RH, cast 1 place, cross LH, cast down round 3s & lead up to face 1st corners
17-24
1s set & turn 1st corners, set & turn 2nd corners
25-32
1s dance reels of 3 on sides giving LSh to 1st corners & cross to 2nd place own sides

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