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Tune properties and standard notation
MRS. WEYME/WEMYSS OF CUTTLEHILL. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). The song “St. Patrick was a Gentleman” may have been set to this tune at one time. The person of the title was the wife of William Wemyss (pronounced ‘Weems’), laird of Cuttlehill, a namsion in Aberdour parish, Fife. Wemyss was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 193. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; p. 23 (3rd ed.).
Recorded sources: