Scottish jig;

Kerr’s Merry Melodies II.34 no. 307 (G); 6/8 Pipe March (K Co., Guards Depot) SGSS 18 # 22; and many other printings.

This is a 19th-c. tune, probably deriving from the nursery song “Queen Mary, Queen Mary, my age is sixteen”; arranged for piano as The Band at a Distance, it became popular in mid-century (sung into fame by Miss Dolby), and replaced the old 17th-c. air to Sir Walter Scott’s words.