Annotation:Jock Wilson's Ball
JOCK WILSON'S BALL. AKA - 'Jock Wilson's," "Mo chuachag laghach." "My Gentle Milk Maid." Scottish, Pipe Reel. B Minor/Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford/Holland): AAB (Perlman). "Jenny Nettles (1)" is perhaps the ancestral tune, however, according to Bobby MacLeod, it was composed by Pipe Major John McColl of Oban. Paul Stewart Cranford (2000) notes that the Cape Breton fiddle setting is perhaps linked to a local puirt a beul (mouth music) version, and that "Chuachag Laghach Thu" (My Gentle Milk Maid)/"Mo chuachag laghach" is a close variant in pipe repertoire. Compare "Jock Wilson's Ball" also with Walsh's "Cheshire Round (2)."
