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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:

The best bed of all,
the best bed in our house
is clean pease straw.
Pease straw is dirty,
will dirty all my gown;
"Never mind my bonny lass—
just lay the cushion down."

...more at: Pease Strae - full Score(s) and Annotations

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-|f_track=Gillie Callum.mp3
+|f_track=Pease Strae.mp3
-|f_pdf=Gillie Callum.pdf
+|f_pdf=Pease Strae.pdf
-|f_artwork=Sandyskinner.jpg
+|f_artwork=Cushion Dance.jpg
-|f_tune_name=Gillie Callum
+|f_tune_name=Pease Strae
-|f_track_title=Gillie Callum
+|f_track_title=Pease Strae
-|f_section=X2
+|f_section=abc
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/user-300042645 Epiton]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/ella-pauly Ella Pauly]
-|f_notes= James Scott Skinner's brother, Alexander "Sandy" Skinner, performing a sword dance while accompanying himself on the fiddle, c. 1880's.
+|f_notes= Cushion Dance.
-|f_caption=Scottish tradition has it that it was first danced by a king of the Scots, Malcolm Canmore (O'Neill says the name is an English version of the Gaelic Callum a chinn mhoir, which "signifies as 'Callum of the big head'), in celebration of his victory at the Battle of Dunsinane in the year 1054.
+|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_source=[https://soundcloud.com/user-300042645/gillie-callum Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/ella-pauly/clean-pease-strae Soundcloud]
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-|f_article=[[Gillie Callum | '''Gillie Callum''']]
+|f_article=[[Pease Strae | '''Pease Strae''']]
-One of the core tunes of Scottish repertoire, sometimes published (especially in older collections) with numerous variation sets. The earliest record of the tune is in David Young's '''Drummond Castle Manuscript, Part 2''' (1734, No. 10), in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle, sometimes called the '''Duke of Perth MS''' because of the inscription.  Young also included the tune in one of his subsequent manuscript collections, '''The MacFarlane Manuscript, Part 2''' (c. 1740, No. 101, p. 236), albeit under the title "[[Cuttie Spoon]]." John Glen (1891) finds the reel in Robert Bremner's '''2nd Collection or Scots Reels or Country Dances''' (London, 1768, p. 108) under the title "Keelum Kallum taa fein." "Gillie Callum" retained its popularity into the next century, and J.S. Skinner, who was a dancing master as well as a celebrated violinist, taught the dance at such places as Elgin and Balmoral (where among other dances he had four children dance Gillie Callum "in a masterly style, such as has not been witnessed in this locality before").
+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:
+<blockquote>
+''The best bed of all,''{{break}}
+''the best bed in our house''{{break}}
+''is clean pease straw.''{{break}}
+''Pease straw is dirty,''{{break}}
+''will dirty all my gown;''{{break}}
+''"Never mind my bonny lass—''{{break}}
+''just lay the cushion down."''{{break}}
+</blockquote>
 }}