SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
T is not certain whether "Comin’ Thro’ the Rye" is a genuine Scottish song or merely a London imitation, according to Percy Scholes. A song opening with similar lines, which may have been adapted from a Scottish original, appears in a pantomime, "Harlequin Mariner" (1795). The tune gives the impression of being an adaptation from a genuine Scottish strathspey. The poem of Burns is only in part the same as that sung, and is probably an adaptation of an older Scottish original. There is a considerable resemblance between the tunes of "Comin’ Thro’ the Rye" and "Auld Lang Syne."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 29
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103SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 29
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