Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on February 15th 2011 by slainte.
This tune has been added to 3 tunebooks.
Also known as Jimmy Duffy's Highland.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Miss Ramsey's Highland
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Dmaj
|:D2 D>B A>GF>E | D>EF>D E<BB>A | D2 D>B A>DF>A|1 (3Bcd A>F E>BA>F:|2 (3Bcd A>F E>F D2||
f<dd>f e<cc>e | d>ef>d A>Bd>e | f<dd>f e<cc>A | (3Bcd A>F E>F D2|
f<dd>f e<cc>e | d>ef>d A>Bd>e | f>de>c d>BA>F | (3Bcd A>F E>BA>F||
Miss Thornton's (highland)
Learnt off Harry Bradley's first recording. The sleeve notes don't provide much information on the tune, and I've never heard anyone else play it. It might be a different version of the same tune Gary Hastings plays in this clip from around 2:15 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB9BE3SzTEQ
# Posted on February 15th 2011 by slainte
Fermanagh Version
Gets played in Fermanagh as Jimmy Duffy's Highland. Here it is more or less as learned from Rev Gary Hastings way, w ay back in the early 80s, but in a considerably straightened out version.
K: Dmaj
|:D2DB A<FF2|AFdB AFE<F|D2DB A<FFA|B/c/d AF GFE<F|
|D2DB A<FF2|AFdB AFE<F|D2DB A<FFA|B/c/d AF E2Eg|
|f<ddf e<cce|dedB ABde|f<ddf e<ccA|B/c/d AF E2Eg|
|f<ddf e<cce|dedB ABde|f/e/d e/d/c d/c/B A2|B/c/d AF GFE<F|
# Posted on February 15th 2011 by LongNote
Thanks, LongNote. That's the one in the clip.
# Posted on February 15th 2011 by slainte
1st 2 parts of "Miss Ramsay" as a strathspey/highland
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2982
No idea which came first.
"LongNote" - will be in touch.
# Posted on February 15th 2011 by Kenny
Miss Ramsey's Highland
Thanks, Kenny. I wondered why this highland doen't have much in common with Miss Thornton's Reel. Harry simply got the name wrong!
# Posted on February 17th 2011 by slainte
Miss Ramsey's Highland
I don't know if it needs saying, but this is a version of a tune well known in Scotland as "Lady Mary Ramsay" (claimed separately by Niel Gow and James Porteous). Other names for it include "The Auld Toon o' Edinburgh". In Shetland and Ireland it became a reel ("Mary Ramsay's" and "The Queen's Shilling" respectively) and part of the Four Provinces dance set.
# Posted on February 20th 2011 by nigelg