Annotation:Knit the Pocky
X: 1 T: Knit the Pocky R: reel B: Robert Bremner "A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances" 1757 p.84 #1 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Scots_Reels_or_Country_Dances_(Bremner,_Robert) Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: The 2nd strain has final repeat but no initial repeat; not fixed. N: The key signature should probably be standard D minor, since the only B is flatted. M: C L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/RobertBremner/CSRCD/841_Knit_the_Pocky.abc K: Ddor % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 1 |:Dd-d^c defd | c_BAG FGEC |Dd-d^c d>ef>g | Ted^ce d/d/d d2 :| defg afdg | Te>dcg ecge |defg afdg | ecge d/d/d d2 | defg afdg | Te>dcg ecge |defg afgf | ecge d/d/d d2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 2 clef=bass middle=d |:d2d2 d2d2 | c2c2 c2c2 |d2d2 d2d2 | A2A2 D2D2 :| d2d2 d2d2 | c2c2 c2c2 |d2d2 d2d2 | A2A2 D2D2 | d2d2 d2d2 | c2c2 c2c2 |d2e2 f2g2 | a2a2 d2d2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
KNIT THE POCKY. AKA and see "Corney is Coming," "Lady MacIntosh's Reel (2)." Scottish, Reel or Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. D Minor (Glen): D Dorian (Bremner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's Thirty Scots Songs (Edinburgh, 1757), although another early version appears in Angus Cumming's collection set as a four-part strathspey called "Lady McIntosh's Reel." 'Pocky' commonly refers to a bag (esp. a beggar's bag for collecting meal), a hat or a hood, and has been used to mean a fishing net. According to Chamber's Scots Dictionary, knit was sometimes used to mean 'overfill' or 'burst', thus the title may mean 'burst the bag'. Paul Cranford notes that a more ornate strathspey version was played by early 20th century Cape Breton fiddlers.
