Annotation:Ducking the Carle
X:1 T:’Na 'm bithadh agum trudar Bodich T:Ducking the Carle T:Pease Strae M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Gunn - The Caledonian Repository of Music B:Adapted for the Bagpipes (Glasgow, 1848, p. 53) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D f|d<dfd gefd|ecAB c<cce|d<dfd gefd|egfe d<ddf| d<dfd gefd|ecAB c<cce|d<dfd gefd|egfe defg|| afdf afdf|ecAB c<cce|afdf afdf|egfe defg| afdf afdf|ecAB c<cce|afge fdec|agfe d<dd||
DUCKING THE CARLE. Scottish, Pipe Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title "Ducking the Carle" comes from a song set to the tune with the line, "Bhogainn anns an allt e" (I would duck him in the burn), which can be found in Keith Norman MacDonald's The Vocal Dance Music of the Scottish Gaels (1901). The melody is better known by the title "Pease Strae" or "Clean Peas Straw" also with a song text called "Nam biodh agam giobal bodaich" (If I had a ragged/lecherous old man).
