Reel o' Stumpie, The

DESCRIPTION: "Hap and rowe, hap and rowe, hap and rowe the feetie O, I thoucht I was a maiden fair Till I heard the greetie o't." The girl's father was a fiddle, her mother made mantie; she danced the "Reel o' Stumpie" and now must attend the child that is the result
AUTHOR: (adapted by Robert Burns)
EARLIEST DATE: 1800 (Scots Musical Museum)
KEYWORDS: courting sex children music
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
MacColl-PersonalChoice, p. 22, "The Reel o' Stumpie, O" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, STUMPREL*
ADDITIONAL: James Kinsley, editor, Burns: Complete Poems and Songs (shorter edition, Oxford, 1969) #573, p. 678, "The Reel o' Stumpie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7252
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Hap and Row" (lyrics, tune?)
NOTES [53 words]: Roud lumps this with "Hap and Row," from which it is presumably derived, but Burns did rewrite at least somewhat. Interestingly, Burns's text begins "Wap and rowe, wap and row," but I've always heard it sun "Hap and row(e). Evidently the versions cross-fertilized, so having them under one Roud number perhaps makes sense.
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