Annotation:Drunken Wife (The)

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X:1 T:Drunken Wife, The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Bremner - Scots Reels (c. 1757) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Amix d | cAec dBgB | cAec A/A/A ae | cAec dBgB | cA A/A/A Tf2 e :| |: (f/g/|a/g/f/e/) ca B/B/B gB|(a/g/f/e/ a)e Tf2 e(f/g/|a)efc B/B/B gB|cA A/A/A Tf2 e :|


DRUNKEN WIFE, THE. AKA - "'Chailleach Mhusgach." AKA and see "Chailleach Mhusgach," "De'el's Dead," "Drunken Fyfie," "Niel Gow's Wife (2)," "Mrs. Dundas McQueen." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection.


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Printed sources : - Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 48. Duncan McKercher (A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels), Edinburgh, 1824; p. 13. Stewart-Robertston (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 30.





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