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MRS. WEYME/WEMYSS OF CUTTLEHILL. AKA and see "Lochgary's." Scottish, Slow Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). James Manson, editor of Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 2 (1853), says: "The modern song of “St. Patrick was a Gentleman” is sung to the above air." Wemyss is a well-known name in Fife and there is a Wemyss Clan. The person of Gow's title was the wife of William Wemyss (pronounced ‘Weems’), laird of Cuttlehill, a mansion in Aberdour parish, Fife. Wemyss was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.

A version of the tune was published a year after the Gows in Anderson's second volume of 1793 as "Lochgary's." See also the similar, perhaps cognate "Alasdair MacAlister."

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 193. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; p. 23 (3rd ed.). Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 2), 1853; p. 64. Sutherland (Edinburgh Repository of Music), 1818; p. 97.

See also listing at :
See Paul Stewart Cranford's Cape Breton setting of the tune at Cranford Publications [1]

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