'''CLYDESIDE LASSIES'''. AKA - "Clyde Side Lassies." Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune belongs to a family of melodies that includes "[[Maguinnis' Delight]]" and the "[[Pretty Peggy]]" tunes (see [[Annotation:Pretty Peggy]]). "Clydeside Lassies" is a corruption of the title "[[Clydesdale Lasses]]," by which name Nathaniel Gow published the tune in 1822 (see note for "[[Annotation:Clydesdale Lassies]]"). The name Clyde comes from the Brittonic Cluth. The River Clyde marked the frontier between the old Celtic British kingdom in the north and the Picts.
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''Printed sources:'' Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 44. Honeyman ('''Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor'''), 1898; p. 24. '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 72. '''White's Unique Collection''', 1896; No. 45, p. 8.
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