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| | |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=Jenny Nettles
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| | |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_notes= She placed her hand into her bag and pulled out the Lover’s knot.
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| |f_caption=Allegedly, as her fame grew through the popularity of the song, her grave was pillaged for keepsakes of the ill fated young woman. Her skull and bones were found barely beneath the surface as two gold earrings and twenty four beads were taken from her grave. The goods were taken to Edinburgh jeweller Mr Fraser of St Andrew’s street.
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| |f_article=[[Jenny_Nettles_(1) | '''Jenny Nettles''']]
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| Jenny Nettles was a comely and fetching maiden of the village of Strathmiglo, who fell deeply in love with a Highland Officer attached to the command of the Rob Roy. The famous outlaw chief had invaded the countryside for a time but was forced to retreat to the mountains for safety, and when the clansmen marched off Jenny was deserted by her lover. In bitterness and pain from her lost love, Jenny hung herself by a roadside tree. As a suicide, Jenny Nettles could not be buried in hallowed ground, nor could a coffin be fashioned for her eternal rest. She was buried in the middle of the night in an unmarked grave. Her final resting place is at a crossroads of two forest paths on the north side of the Lomond Hills in Fife, a few minutes' walk out of Strathmiglo. Local lore has it that Jennie's ghost wanders the muir on bright moonlit nights, looking for her lost Highland love. Jenny Nettles is also a nickname for the harmless and familiar "daddy longlegs" or cellar spider, for a stinging nettle, and, on the Isle of Man, for a jellyfish.
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| Stenhouse [1] received the following anecdote from an Edinburgh jeweler, a Mr. Fraser of St. Andrew's Street, regarding some reputed relics of Jenny's that came into his possession:
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| Gold ear-ring and bead of a necklace which belonged to the famed Jenny Nettles of Scottish song, whom tradition mentions committed suicide, and was buried between two lairds' lands near the Lomond hills, a cairn or heap of stones being raised to mark the spot, according to ancient usage. A stranger, happening to visit a farmer in that neighbourhood, was accidentally informed of the above circumstance, and was shown the place where the cairn once stood. Prompted by the love of antiquarian research, he immediately commenced digging, when, at the depth of eighteen inches, he found the skull and other bones of poor Jenny (which must have remained inhumed at least a century), along with two ear-rings and twenty-four beads. One of the ear-rings was given to a gentleman who went to France, and twenty-three of the beads were distributed among various persons. 1830.--(C.K.S.) .... (C.K.S. are the initials of Stenhouse's contemporary, Scottish antiquarian and artist Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 1781-1851).
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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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BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|D2G2 G2:|
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|:B>c|dBgB dgBg|ecgc egce|dBgB dgBd|AGFE D2Bc|
dBgB dgBd|ecgc egce|dBGB cAFA|G2B2 G2:||
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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