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| |f_track=Rattlin Roarin Willie.mp3
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| |f_pdf=Ranting Roaring Willie.pdf
| | |f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Farmer's_Reel_(1) > |
| |f_artwork=Rattlin Roaring Willie.jpg
| | |f_annotation='''FARMER'S REEL [1]'''. AKA - "The Farmer." AKA and see "[[Boys from Scart (The)]]," "[[Coquette (1)]]," "[[Delaware Hornpipe]]," "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." Canadian, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second strain is cognate with the first three alternate titles, and both strains are cognate with "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." See note for "[[annotation:Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)|Ottawa Valley Reel]]" for more. |
| |f_tune_name=Rantin' Roarin' Willie
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| |f_track_title=Rantin'_Roarin'_Willie_(1)
| | |f_printed_sources=Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; p. 41. Messer ('''Way Down East'''), 1948; No. 14. Messer ('''Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes'''), 1980; p. 55. |
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| |f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/danny-mcnab-93215924 Danny Mc Nab]
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| |f_notes= Glen Collection of printed music: Songs of Scotland prior to Burns.
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| |f_caption=The song is a description of the adventures of a whirligig maker or wood turner in the pursuit of a runaway galloway or pony, and the ingenious way in which the names of the different localities are interwoven with the story reveal a marvelous command of the rhyming faculty.
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| |f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/danny-mcnab-93215924/rattlin-roaring-willie-bon Soundcloud] | |
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| |f_article=[[Rantin'_Roarin'_Willie_(1) | '''Rantin' Roarin' Willie''']]
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| '''Old and New Edinburgh, vol. 2''' (p. 55) gives that Burns’ poem was inspired by a member of the Crochallan Fencibles, a convivial society in Edinburgh that met at Dawney Douglas’s tavern, to which Burns was introduced in 1787. The member’s name was Wiliam Dunbar, W.S., and he was the “Colonel” of the club and a predominant wit. A different tale has it that Rattlin' Willie was a wandering fiddler famous as both a musician and as a brawler in the Jedburgh (Jeddart) area, whose "sword-hand was dreaded as much as his bowing arm was admired". He fell out with another fiddler named Robin Rool (Robin of Rule Water) after an argument over their respective musical abilities and in the fight that ensued Robin was killed. His death was avenged at the hands of two of the Elliots, who in turn slew Willie. Scott alludes to Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (described as “the jovial harper”) in his The Lay of the Last Minstrel, noting that he was a real person. Other accounts say that Willie, still a ‘rantin’, roarin’ lad, lived in the 17th century and did business in the Hawick and Langholm districts, until, having had the misfortune to murder a brother in trade who passed by the name of 'Sweet Milk', he was executed at Jedburgh. Neil (1991) quotes the following verse: | |
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| ''The Lasses of Ousenam Water''<br> | |
| ''Are rugging and riving their hair,''<br> | |
| ''And a' for the sake O' Willie—''<br> | |
| ''They'll hear his sangs nae mair,''<br>
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| ''Nae mair to his merry fiddle''<br> | |
| ''Dance Teviot's maidens free;''<br>
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| ''My curses on their cunning''<br>
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| ''That gar'd sweet Willie dee!''<br>
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| </blockquote>
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X: 1
T:Farmer's Reel [1], The
R:Reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Transcribed by Bruce Osborne
K:G
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Additional notes
Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 41. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 14. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 55.
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