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'''SOUTER JOHNNY.''' Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A 'souter' is a shoemanker or cobbler. Souter Johnnie is a character in poet Robert Burns's epic poem "Tam o' Shanter," along with his own long suffering wife Kate, "Gathering her brows like gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm". "Souter Johnny" is the next tune after the strathspey "Tam o' Shanter" in Milne's '''Middleton's Selection''' (1870), suggesting the pair were played together in a strathspey-reel medley. | '''SOUTER JOHNNY.''' Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A 'souter' is a shoemanker or cobbler. Souter Johnnie is a character in poet Robert Burns's epic poem "Tam o' Shanter," along with his own long suffering wife Kate, "Gathering her brows like gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm". "Souter Johnny" is the next tune after the strathspey "Tam o' Shanter" in Milne's '''Middleton's Selection''' (1870), suggesting the pair were played together in a strathspey-reel medley. | ||
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SOUTER JOHNNY. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A 'souter' is a shoemanker or cobbler. Souter Johnnie is a character in poet Robert Burns's epic poem "Tam o' Shanter," along with his own long suffering wife Kate, "Gathering her brows like gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm". "Souter Johnny" is the next tune after the strathspey "Tam o' Shanter" in Milne's Middleton's Selection (1870), suggesting the pair were played together in a strathspey-reel medley.
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