View source for Annotation:Ha'd the Cradle Rockin

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|f_annotation='''HA'D THE CRADLE ROCKIN.'''  Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. [[biography:William Christie]] (1778-1849), a postman, song collector, dancing master and fiddler-composer from Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, included "Ha'd the Cradle Rockin" in his 1820 collection. Christie often recorded his source for older tunes in his collection, but on this one he is silent.
|f_printed_sources=William Christie ('''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.'''), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 21.
|f_see_also_listing=See Christie's handwritten c. 1818 manuscript, in preparation for his publishers in Edinburgh [https://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0528 ]
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