Keep the Country Bonny Lassie

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 Theme code Index    5324 5353
 Also known as    Keep the Country Bonnie Lassie, Keep the Country Bonny Lass, Let's shak her Weall, Wood of Fyvie (The), Càill a Chailag Ladhach (Na)
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    3 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/2
 History    
 Structure    AAB
 Editor/Compiler    Robert Bremner
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Scots Reels
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 32
 Year of publication/Date of MS    c. 1757
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X:2 T:Keep the Country Bonny Lassie M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bremner - Scots Reels c. 1757 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A e | A/A/A T(cA) B>cdf | A/A/A T(cA) eATcA | dfce B>cdf | ecaf Te2A :| |: g | (a/g/f/e/) ce B>cdg | (a/g/f/e/) ce (a/g/f/e/) ce | dfca B>cdf | (e/f/g a)f Te2A :|]


X:3 T:Keep the Countrey bonny Lassie C:R. Petrie S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/5/04 N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 12 L:1/8 M:C| R:Reel K:A f|AA/A/ (cA) Bcdf| AA/A/ (cA) eAcA | dfce Bcdf|ecac e2 :| g|(a/g/f/e/ cA) Bcdf|(a/g/f/e/ c)e (a/g/f/e/ c)e|(a/g/f/e/ cA) Bcdf|ecac e2 (Ag)| (a/g/f/e/ cA) Bcdf|(a/g/f/e/ c)e (a/g/f/e/ c)e|(a/g/f/e/ c)A Bcdf|ecac e2A |]


X:1 T:Keep the Country Bonny Lassie M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:John Rook music manuscript collection (1840, p. 17) N:Rook was a multi-instrumentalist from Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A EAcA Bcde|eAce a/g/f/e/ cA|dfce Bcde|ecac e2e:| |:f/a/|a/g/f/e/ cA Bcde|a/g/f/e/ ce a/g/f/e/ cA|dfce Bcdf|ecac e2A2:|]


X:1 T:Na càill a Chailag ladhach T:Keep the country bonny lassie M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Gunn - The Caledonian Repository of Music B:Adapted for the Bagpipes (Glasgow, 1848, p. 5) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amix f|eAcA Bcdf|eCcA eAcA|dBcA Bcdf|ecac e2e:| |:f|ecac Bcdf|ecac gcac|gaec Bcdf|ecac e2e:|


X:1 T:Keep the Country Bonny Lassie M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A f|eAcA Bcdf|eAcA eAcA|dfce Bcdf|ecac e2e:| g|aece Bcdf|aece aece|aece Bcdf|ecac e2 eg| aece Bcdf|aece aece|dfce Bcdf|ecac e2e|]


X:1 T:Keep the Country, Bonnie Lassie M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Köhlers’ Violin Repository Part 3 (1885, p. 219) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A f|eAcA Bcdf|eAcA eAcA|dfce Bcdf|ecac {f}e2A:|| g|a/g/f/e/ ce Bcdf|a/g/f/e/ ce aece|a/g/f/e/ ce Bcdf|ecac e2 Ag| a/g/f/e/ ce Bcdf|a/g/f/e/ ce a/g/f/e/ ce|dfce Bcdf|eaca e2A|]