English
1894 / Scottish tunes
Babbity Bowster
Scottish traditional singing game · voice · 1894 singing-game score · melody and five stanzas
A Scottish singing and dancing game collected at Biggar. The 1894 source prints the complete tune and five stanzas, including the recurring 'Babbity Bowster bravely' line.
Playable score
A playable single-line score based on a published source of the same tune.
Transcription reference: online score
The complete printed melody is transcribed from the source below, preserving its pitches, rhythms and short bars. Lyrics are omitted; no harmony is added. The numeric playback tempo is editorial.
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Source and rights
IMSLP marks this historical volume public domain. Its compiler Alice Bertha Gomme died in 1938. This facsimile contains no modern arrangement or recording.
A. B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, vol. 1 (1894), p. 9