Annotation:Look Behind You
X:1 T:Look behind You M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B: Joseph Lowe - Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, B:book 2 (1844–1845, p. 8) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D B|ADFD EB,B,B|ADFD d2 df|(gf)ed eBBd|FD (F/G/A) d2d:| f|dg (f/g/a) beef|dg (f/g/a) (fd)ec|dBAF EFGB|FD (F/G/A) d2d||
LOOK BEHIND YOU. AKA and see "Lassie Look Behind You/Ye," "Lady Anne Gordon's Reel," "House of Letterfourie (The)." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833) who titled it "House of Letterfourie (The)"<div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="/w/images/lilypond/g/9/g98cuzl8gh52lciupwj7z1plrtbatsc/g98cuzl8.midi"><img src="/w/images/lilypond/g/9/g98cuzl8gh52lciupwj7z1plrtbatsc/g98cuzl8.png" width="675" height="81" alt="
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and published it in his First Collection of 1781. The title above is the one Gow used when he reprinted the tune in his Repository, Part Second, 1802, without credit to Marshall.
"(Lasses) Look Behind You" was entered (as "Look behind you") in the 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria. A version of the reel, close but not quite identical, was entered into the huge 19th century music manuscript collection[1] (No. 21, p. 3) of prosperous dairy farmer, miller, sometime printer and bookbinder, and fiddler James Barry (1819-1906) of Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, northern Nova Scotia.
