Annotation:Fisher's Rant (2) (The)
X: 1 T:Fishers Rant, The, or the Lasses of Ancrum M:C L:1/16 B:Thomas Calvert - Collection of Marches & Quick Steps, Strathspeys & Reels (1799, p. 22) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Dmin c2|Ad3dc3 A2cd d3e | c3de2f2 (gf)ed c2e2 | Ad3d2c2 A2d4 cA | {A} B3GA3F DD D2D2 || c2 | f3g agfe f2d2e2c2 | A3B A2G2F3G A2c2| f3g agfe f2d2 e2 cA | {A}B3GA3F DD D2D2c2| f3g agfe f2d2e2c2 | A3B A2G2F3G A2g2| a3fg3e f3de3c | {A} B3GA3F DD D2D2 ||
FISHER'S RANT [2], THE. AKA and see "Lasses of Ancrum." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune appears in the Calvert Collection (1799), a collection of Scottish tunes by Thomas Calvert, a musician who lived in Kelso. A note with the collection states that Calvert supplied "a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun'd and repaired."
