Annotation:Binny's Jig
BINNY'S JIG(G). AKA and see "Dusty Miller (6) (Old)," "Hey the Dusty Miller." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Binny's Jig" is from the Blaikie Manuscript (usually dated 1692), and dating to the time before the rise in popularity of the reel and strathspey, when "the English thought of the jig as being the most representative type of Scottish music" (Alburger, 1983). Andrew Blaikie was an engraver from Paisley who had a manuscript of tablature for the viol de gamba. "Binny's Jig" resembles London music publisher John Walsh's "Dusty Miller (6) (Old)" closely in the first strain, and, while the second strains are more diverse, they also seem related (see notes for "annotation:Dusty Miller (6) (Old) for Fr. John Quinn's analysis of the relationship between "Benny's" and "Dusty Miller").
The English collector Chappell sometimes referred to the tune as "Benny's Jig."
