Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on March 23rd 2007 by DonaldK.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
Also known as The Burn O' Cairnie, The Burn O' Carnie, The Burn O' Craigie.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Miss Wedderburn's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amaj
F|:{^D}E2 EF EFAc|BAcB AFFA|{^D}E2 EF EFAc|[1 BABc (3AAA AF:|[2 BABc A2 ((3ABc)||
d2 fd c2 ec|BAcB AFFA|((3Bcd) fd c2 ec|BABc (3AAA Ac|
dfdf ceAc|BAcB AFF=g|fefg abaf|ecBc (3AAA A|]
Another 4 bar reel that is popular in Cape Breton. Probably originally Scottish.
In Cape Breton it is common to play the A part an octave higher on the second run through the tune.
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by DonaldK
Miss Wedderburn's
Yes, it's Scottish, published in many of the old collections. Another name for it is "The Burn O' Cairnie" (or "Carnie"), although when the Old Blind Dogs recorded it they called it "The Burn o' Craigie".
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by nigelg
Miss Wedderburn's
If I remember rightly, "The Burn o' Cairnie" is a strathspey version of "Miss Wedderburn's" - or perhaps MW's is a reel version of BoC? In The Skye Collection it says
"Burn o' Cairnie" or "Miss Wdderburn", also played as a reel. From Peter Milne's Collection."
For a brief biog of Peter Milne, see http://www.nigelgatherer.com/perf/fiddlers/pmiln.html
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by nigelg
Thanks for the info, Nigel. "From Peter Milne's Collection": so did he write it or collect it?
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by DonaldK
I do note on your website it says MW is a Peter Milne composition.
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by DonaldK
Scrub that last comment. I was thinking of Big John MacNeil for some reason.
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by DonaldK
Miss Wedderburn's
DonaldK asked, "...did [Peter Milne] write it or collect it?"
It's much older than Milne. As "The Burn o' Carnie" it can be found in Bremner's first collection, c.1751; as "Miss Wedderburn's" in Joshua Campbell's c.1786 collection. I expect it was in Milne's repertoire.
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by nigelg
This is very much like The Kilt Is My Delight, although not that much like the version posted here:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/642
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by granama
OLD MOTHER FLANAGAN
Is another name here in the USA... also related to Greenfields of Virginia(America)
From Ceolas Fiddler--- Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler Wilson Douglas remarked that he didn't know where it originated; "its a Clay County tune and French (Carpenter, his mentor) said he never did know. Said the first time he ever heard it played, his dad played it. And he learned it from him and he said he never did know where it came from." Another West Virginia fiddler, Emory Bailey, also played a version. Bayard (1981) collected this rhyme to the first part in Pennsylvania:
***
Old Mother Flanagan, never be a man again,
Hole in her stockin', heel kept a-rockin'.
# Posted on March 23rd 2007 by Sean MacOda Criobhan
Its here
Old Mother Flanagan http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2046
# Posted on March 24th 2007 by Sean MacOda Criobhan
MissWedderburns
I keep hearing "Kilt is my delight" Am I drunk again?
# Posted on April 21st 2007 by cruiser