Annotation:Glen Lyons Rant

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 GLEN LYON'S RANT. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody first appears in John and Andrew Gow's A Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels (London, c. 1795). Andrew (1760-1803) and younger brother John (1764-1826) established a publishing business in London in 1788 and were the English distributors for the Gow family musical publications. Glen Lyon is a valley of western Perth and Kinross, which carries the waters of the River Lyon eastward from Loch Lyon to River Tay. S.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 25. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 186.  Recorded sources:

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