Cecil Sharp's Note 61 (1916)
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No. 61. I’m Seventeen come Sunday
This ballad, with words re-written by Burns, is in The Scots Musical Museum (ed. 1792, No. 397). The tune there given, which is different from ours, is a traditional one, and was recorded by Burns himself from a singer in Nithsdale. Other versions are printed in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society (volume i, p. 92; volume ii, pp. 9 and 269); Songs of the West (No. 73, 2d ed.); and Ford’s Vagabond Songs and Ballads (p. 99).
The words, which are on broadsides by Bebbington (Manchester) and Such, have not been altered. The tune is in the Dorian mode.