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'''MERRY LADS OF FOSS, THE'''. Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (McGlashan, Rook).  The tune was entered into the 1780-1804 music manuscript copybook of fifer or fiddler John Fife, who may have been from Perthshire (and who also may have been at sea; battles in Caribbean and the Mediterranean are referenced in the ms.). It was also entered into the 1840 music copybook of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, Cumbria.  
|f_annotation='''MERRY LADS OF FOSS, THE'''. AKA and see "[[Lads of Foss (The)]]." Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (McGlashan, Rook).  The tune was entered into the music copybook [https://buttreymilitarysocialtunes1800.wordpress.com/melodies/] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife <ref>Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm</ref>, with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. "Merry Lads of Foss" was also entered into the 1840 music copybook of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, Cumbria.  
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Researcher Conor Ward finds the tune derivative of "[[Keel Row (The)]]."  
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''Printed sources'':  Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796; No. 61, p. 25. McGlashan  ('''A Collection of Reels'''), c. 1786; p. 15. Surenne ('''Dance Music of Scotland'''), 1852; p. 152.  
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MERRY LADS OF FOSS, THE. AKA and see "Lads of Foss (The)." Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (McGlashan, Rook). The tune was entered into the music copybook [1] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife [1], with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. "Merry Lads of Foss" was also entered into the 1840 music copybook of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, Cumbria.

Researcher Conor Ward finds the tune derivative of "Keel Row (The)."


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Printed sources : - Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 61, p. 25. McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; p. 15. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 152.






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  1. Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm