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Annotation:Mrs. J.W. Bourke
X:1 T:Mrs. J.W. Bourke M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Gow – Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1800) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F C|TF2 (.AF) E(GG>)B|AFAc Tf2 (.c.f)|dBcF E(GG>)B|AcCE F2F:|| c|fcfa gceg|a/g/f g/f/e Tf2 c>B|AcdB c(ff>).d|cBAG T.F2 (F>.c)| fcfa gceg|(a/g/)f (g/f/)e Tf2 cf|AfcA .f(.dTc>B)|AcCE (F2F)||
MRS. J. W. BOURKE. AKA - "Mrs. Bourke." AKA and see "Lady Augusta Murray," "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)," "Push about the Jorum (1)," "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)." Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title possibly refers to a Miss Kerr of Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London, who, in 1800, married Rev. J.W. Bourke, later Vicar of St. Martins, Shropshire. They had one child, a boy, who went sailing on a river while at college and drowned when his boat capsized. However, the melody itself first appears in Perthshire fiddle-composer Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection as "Lady Augusta Murray." Robert Petrie printed a version as "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)" around 1805. The Rev. Luke Donnellan's Connaght reel "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)" is a more distanced version of Dow's tune.
