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|f_track=Pease Strae.mp3
|f_track=Rattlin Roarin Willie.mp3
|f_pdf=Pease Strae.pdf
|f_pdf=Ranting Roaring Willie.pdf
|f_artwork=Cushion Dance.jpg
|f_artwork=Rattlin Roaring Willie.jpg
|f_tune_name=Pease Strae
|f_tune_name=Rantin' Roarin' Willie
|f_track_title=Pease Strae
|f_track_title=Rantin'_Roarin'_Willie_(1)
|f_section=abc
|f_section=abc
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/ella-pauly Ella Pauly]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/danny-mcnab-93215924 Danny Mc Nab]
|f_notes= Cushion Dance.
|f_notes= Glen Collection of printed music: Songs of Scotland prior to Burns.
|f_caption=Northumbrian collector John Stokoe noted in the Bell Manuscript that the tune was used in Northumberland for the Cushion Dance, to a dance similar to "Joan Sanderson," popular in the 16th century.  
|f_caption=The song is a description of the adventures of a whirligig maker or wood turner in the pursuit of a runaway galloway or pony, and the ingenious way in which the names of the different localities are interwoven with the story reveal a marvelous command of the rhyming faculty.  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/ella-pauly/clean-pease-strae Soundcloud]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/danny-mcnab-93215924/rattlin-roaring-willie-bon Soundcloud]  
|f_pix=420  
|f_pix=420  
|f_picpix=200
|f_picpix=200
|f_article=[[Pease Strae | '''Pease Strae''']]
|f_article=[[Rantin'_Roarin'_Willie_(1) | '''Rantin' Roarin' Willie''']]


Instructions for a country dance to the melody can be found in the Scottish '''Holmain Manuscript''', c. 1710-50, where it is alternately titled "[[Bathget Boys]]." Modern musicologist David Johnson (1988) also prints directions to a country dance called Pease Strae with the melody. Flett and Flett (1964) record that the same Scottish dance went by different names according to which tune was played to accompany it in a particular locale; thus the dance also was called "[[Duke of Perth]]" and "[[Brown's Reel (2)]]" in East Fife, Perthshire and Angus, and "[[Keep the Country Bonny Lassie]]" in the upper parts of Ettrick. The title Pease Strae for the series of dance steps was used in the area around Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Arran and Galloway, and was taught by all the local dancing masters. Northumbrian collector John Stokoe noted in the Bell Manuscript that the tune was used in Northumberland for the Cushion Dance, to a dance similar to "[[Joan Sanderson]]," popular in the 16th century. Supporting this is the tunes entry in Northumbrian musician William Lister's music manuscript as "The Cuzin Dance." This dance survived for a time in a children's ring game with a cushion, called "The Best Bed of All," which included the chant:
'''Old and New Edinburgh, vol. 2''' (p. 55) gives that Burns’ poem was inspired by a member of the Crochallan Fencibles, a convivial society in Edinburgh that met at Dawney Douglas’s tavern, to which Burns was introduced in 1787. The member’s name was Wiliam Dunbar, W.S., and he was the “Colonel” of the club and a predominant wit. A different tale has it that Rattlin' Willie was a wandering fiddler famous as both a musician and as a brawler in the Jedburgh (Jeddart) area, whose "sword-hand was dreaded as much as his bowing arm was admired". He fell out with another fiddler named Robin Rool (Robin of Rule Water) after an argument over their respective musical abilities and in the fight that ensued Robin was killed. His death was avenged at the hands of two of the Elliots, who in turn slew Willie. Scott alludes to Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (described as “the jovial harper”) in his The Lay of the Last Minstrel, noting that he was a real person. Other accounts say that Willie, still a ‘rantin’, roarin’ lad, lived in the 17th century and did business in the Hawick and Langholm districts, until, having had the misfortune to murder a brother in trade who passed by the name of 'Sweet Milk', he was executed at Jedburgh. Neil (1991) quotes the following verse:
<blockquote>  
<blockquote>  
''The best bed of all,''{{break}}
''The Lasses of Ousenam Water''<br>
''the best bed in our house''{{break}}
''Are rugging and riving their hair,''<br>
''is clean pease straw.''{{break}}
''And a' for the sake O' Willie—''<br>
''Pease straw is dirty,''{{break}}
''They'll hear his sangs nae mair,''<br>
''will dirty all my gown;''{{break}}
''Nae mair to his merry fiddle''<br>
''"Never mind my bonny lass—''{{break}}
''Dance Teviot's maidens free;''<br>
''just lay the cushion down."''{{break}}
''My curses on their cunning''<br>
''That gar'd sweet Willie dee!''<br>
</blockquote>  
</blockquote>  
}}
}}

Revision as of 07:55, 27 May 2023


The song is a description of the adventures of a whirligig maker or wood turner in the pursuit of a runaway galloway or pony, and the ingenious way in which the names of the different localities are interwoven with the story reveal a marvelous command of the rhyming faculty.
Rantin' Roarin' Willie

Played by: Danny Mc Nab
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Glen Collection of printed music: Songs of Scotland prior to Burns.

Rantin' Roarin' Willie

Old and New Edinburgh, vol. 2 (p. 55) gives that Burns’ poem was inspired by a member of the Crochallan Fencibles, a convivial society in Edinburgh that met at Dawney Douglas’s tavern, to which Burns was introduced in 1787. The member’s name was Wiliam Dunbar, W.S., and he was the “Colonel” of the club and a predominant wit. A different tale has it that Rattlin' Willie was a wandering fiddler famous as both a musician and as a brawler in the Jedburgh (Jeddart) area, whose "sword-hand was dreaded as much as his bowing arm was admired". He fell out with another fiddler named Robin Rool (Robin of Rule Water) after an argument over their respective musical abilities and in the fight that ensued Robin was killed. His death was avenged at the hands of two of the Elliots, who in turn slew Willie. Scott alludes to Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (described as “the jovial harper”) in his The Lay of the Last Minstrel, noting that he was a real person. Other accounts say that Willie, still a ‘rantin’, roarin’ lad, lived in the 17th century and did business in the Hawick and Langholm districts, until, having had the misfortune to murder a brother in trade who passed by the name of 'Sweet Milk', he was executed at Jedburgh. Neil (1991) quotes the following verse:

The Lasses of Ousenam Water
Are rugging and riving their hair,
And a' for the sake O' Willie—
They'll hear his sangs nae mair,
Nae mair to his merry fiddle
Dance Teviot's maidens free;
My curses on their cunning
That gar'd sweet Willie dee!



...more at: Rantin' Roarin' Willie - full Score(s) and Annotations



X:1 T:Ranting Roaring Willie [1] T:Rattlin' Roarin' Willie M:9/4 L:1/4 S:Henry Atkinson's original MS, Hartburn, N'umberland, 1694, no. HA.134 O:England A:Hartburn, Northumberland N:"Unedited". Many inconsistencies in the MS, but I have refrained from editing N:as it is a tune commonly found elsewhere. CGP N:See Matt Seattle's reconstruction http://www.folknortheast.com/learn/core-tunes/rattlin-roarin-willie H:1/4 Z:vmp.Chris Partington, Jan. 2004 K:D V:1 clef=treble name="1." [V:1] (B/c/)|A2D F2D (FA)B|cdc (cG)EG(AB)|A2D F2D (F/A/) |(B/c/) (d/c/)(d/c/)(d/c/)”^sic barlines”| (d/c/)(B/A/)(G/F/) A2(B/c/)|(d/c/)(d/c/)(d/c/) (d/c/)(B/A/) (G/F/) A2B|cdc (c/G/)E GAB|A2F B2A d2(c/B/)| ADF ECE D2||D|DA,D DA,D DA,D|EDE CEC (E/F/G)E|EA,D DA,D DA,D|FEF CFC F/G/AF| EDE CEC (E/F/)GE|A2F B2A d2(c/B/)| ADF ECE D2||A|d>ef f>ef d2A|c>de e>de c2A| cAB Adc/B/|A/D/F E/C/ED2||A|AFD AFD AFD|cGE cGE cGE|AFD AFD| dAF dAF dAF|dAF dAF dAF|cGE cGE G>AB|A2F B2A dc/B/| ADF FCE D3-|D2|] W:See notes re editing


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