Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on January 31st 2009 by gravelwalks.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Also known as Lady Nellie Wemyss.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Lady Nelly Wemyss
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amaj
B|:c2 e ega|cAc e2d|cde ef=g|B=GB d2B|
c2e efg|agf edc|dfd cac|B=GB d2B:|
|:acA ecA|acA efg|acA ecA|B=GB d2B|
acA ecA|agf edc|dfd cac|B=GB d2B:|
There've been two jigs in A posted recently, so how about another? It's a key that is too often neglected.
This tune sounds typically Scottish and is still played in Newfoundland, maybe still knocking around Scotland but it isn't featured on many recordings. I don't know much else about it, except that this is how it appears in the Atholl Collection by James Stewart Robertson and I play it straight forward like it is. I've not included JSR's suggested ornaments on account of honest to goodness laziness.
# Posted on January 31st 2009 by gravelwalks
Mixolydian much? :/
I'd say this was in Mix
# Posted on February 1st 2009 by D.J.F.
You're right. I just wanted to make sure the sheet music would come out correctly.
# Posted on February 1st 2009 by gravelwalks
It's either Amix with a few G#s or A major with a few G naturals. It doesn't matter which you call it, so long as the notes are right.
# Posted on February 2nd 2009 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Mix
This is exactly as it appears in the Skye Collection where it shows three sharps but has all the same naturals as in this version. I would say it would make more sense notated in A mix with the odd sharp as they have a lot less influence on this tune than the G naturals.
# Posted on February 2nd 2009 by bogman
Jimmy Shand and his Scottish band play this in a set after "Muckin' of Gordie's Byre" and before Braidlye's House.
# Posted on April 11th 2010 by Steven Hawson