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David Herd ('''''') prints a fragment of the once popular song:
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''There came a fidler out of France,''<br>
''I wat nae giff ye kend  him,''  ....('know not if'...)<br>
''And he yon wi' our good wife:''<br>
''Geld him, lasses, geld him!''<br>
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GELD HIM LASSES (GELD HIM). AKA and see "Chalk's Hornpipe," "Punchinello's Hornpipe," "Rusty Gulley (1)." Scottish, 'Old' or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. A traditional tune published in the mid-18th century, in the relatively less strict times between the reformation and Victorian eras. It appears in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768). A different tune by the same title appears several times in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1760).

David Herd (') prints a fragment of the once popular song:

There came a fidler out of France,
I wat nae giff ye kend him, ....('know not if'...)
And he yon wi' our good wife:
Geld him, lasses, geld him!

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6), 1760; p. 23.

Recorded sources: Topic Records, Alistair Anderson - "Corby Craig" (1977).

See also listing at:
Hear Alistair Anderson's recording on youtube.com [1]




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