Annotation:Carlin is Your Daughter Ready?

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 CARLIN, IS YOUR DAUGHTER READY? AKA and see "Bob o' Dooly (The)," "Jenny Cameron's Rant." AKA - "Port Nan Con." Scottish, Strathspey. A Mixolydian (Athole, Johnson): D Mixolydian (Mackintosh). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A ‘carlin’ is a Scots word meaning an old woman. There are several melodies with this title. One "Carle is Your Daughter Ready?" appears in David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1760), and a tune by that name appears in the 1790 music manuscript collection of American musician Edward Murphy (Newport, R.I.?). There was also a song by the title: I will buy a pound of woo', I will wash't and mak a plaidy, I'm guan ower the muir to woo', Carlin, is your daughter ready? Northumbrian musician William Vickers included a version as "Jenny Cameron's Rant" in his 1770 music manuscript collection.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. 1, 1782; No. 24, p. 9. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 10: Airs & Melodies of Scotland's Past), vol. 10, 1992 (revised 2001); p. 3. Mackintosh, vol. 3, 1796; p. 39. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 14.  Recorded sources: Queltic Q-104, Ten Strike - "Neuantics."

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