Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on May 16th 2007 by Joe CSS.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as Ha'd The Lass Till I Run At Her, Had The Lass Tel I Won At Hir, Had The Lass Till I Win At Her, Had The Lass Till I Winn At Her, Haud The Lass Till I Come At Her, Hod The Lass, Hod The Lass Till I Run At Her, Hod The Lass While I Run At Her, Hold The Lass While I Run At Her.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: I Had A Lass Till I Ran At Her
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Ador
|:A e2 g fdec|A e2 g2 GdB|A e2 g fdef|g2 a/2g/2f/2e/2 dGdB:|
|:Ag f/2g/2a fdec|Ag f/2g/2a GB/2c/2 dB|Ag f/2g/2a fdef|g2 a/2g/2f/2e/2 dGdB:|
I Had a Lass
I presume he didn't have a lass afterwards. Pete Cooper and Richard Bolton play this weird little tune on their CD The Savage Hornpipe. They play it with c-sharps I think the third time round. Don't ask me why, I think it just sounds out of place.
It's also known as Hod the Lass While I Run At Her. I'm glad I never met him...
# Posted on May 16th 2007 by Joe CSS
Sounds like a Border tune to me, if only because their names often trumpet singularly raw behaviours!
# Posted on May 16th 2007 by nicholas
A misunderstanding of the title...
Does the title come off their CD as well, or is it your attempt at a translation, Joe? You're obviously not from the northeast! It's not "had" as in "to have". It's "haad" or "ha'd" or "haud" (or however you want to spell it) meaning "hold", or more probably in a looser sense of "keep her there" or "keep her with you", rather than physically detaining her! Your title doesn't make sense as it stands. It's not "I" did anything. It's a request for someone else to do it.
I'm not sure but I think "win at her" means something like "get to her" or "find my way to her".
I think your key sig should be Amix. It's a Border pipes tune.
This is a really old tune. It appears in 18th & 19th century manuscripts from the north of England and Scotland. The setting you posted is the same as this one I found on the net, apart from the key of course:
X: 1
T: Ha'd The Lass Till I Run At Her
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Q: 160
S: J.Lishman(?)MS, c1825, Lakes, Browne Coll.
R: Reel
O: England
A: Lakes
Z: vmp.Chris Partington
F: http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/abc/browne13.ABC 2007-05-17 02:38:04 UT
K:D
Ae-eg fdec|Ae-eg gGdB|Aeeg fdef|g-g a/g/f/e/ dGdB:|
|:Ag f/g/a fdec|Ag f/g/a GB/c/ dB|Ag f/g/a fdef|gg a/g/f/e/ dBdB:|
A really straightforward appears in the Vickers manuscript, albeit in the wrong key (this was a common problem in said manuscript), so I corrected it:
X: 1
T: Had The Lass Tel I Won At Hir
T: Had The Lass Till I Win At Her
T: Haud The Lass Till I Come At Her
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
S: William Vickers (1770)
R: reel
K: Amix
Aeeg fdec|Aeeg BGdB|Aeeg fdef|gedg BGdB:|
|:Ag fg/a/ fdec|Ag fg/a/ BGdB|Ag fg/a/ fdef|gedg BGdB:|
A setting in Aird's collection (time sig corrected) reappears in other sources:
X: 1
T: Had the Lass till I win at her
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
S: Aird's Airs and Melodies vol 1
S: Rev.R.Harrison's MS, c1815, Cumbria
K: Amix
Aeeg fdec|Aeef gG B/c/d/B/|Aeeg fdef|gddg BG B/c/d/B/:|
|:Ag f/g/a fdec|Ag f/g/a BgdB|Ag f/g/a fdef|gddg BG B/c/d/B/:|
# Posted on May 17th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Hod the lass, had a lass....
On the CD, it's simply called "Hod the Lass", but in the sleeve notes, it says that its full name is "Hod the Lass While I Run At Her". HOWEVER, I first learnt it from Pete Cooper about four years ago at Folkworks, where he played it in E, and called it "I Had a Lass Till I Ran At Her"
As I said, they do play it through once in Amix, but I think it just sounds wrong.
# Posted on May 17th 2007 by Joe CSS
Ok, well, I suppose at least it's a good thing that the Folkworks teachers are fostering an appreciation of the older, local repertoire, and not just modern tunes...
# Posted on May 17th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Yeah, the Wizard's Walk isn't the only tune they teach us there...
# Posted on May 17th 2007 by Joe CSS
That's heartening.
# Posted on May 18th 2007 by Dr. Dow
It's on my CD
# Posted on May 21st 2007 by chrisormston