Annotation:I Winna Gae to Bed

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I WINNA GAE TO BED (UNTIL I'M MARRIED). AKA - "I Winna Gan to My Bed Till I Get a Man." AKA and see "Down the Wagon Way (2)." Scottish, English; Reel. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800. See also the related "Old Wagon Way" in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian tune collection, and the close variant "Down the Wagon Way (2)" from Northumbrian musician John Bell's c. 1812 manuscript collection.

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Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 517 (appears as "I Winna Gae to Bed Until I'm Married"). Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1820; p. 24. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 46. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 97.

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