Annotation:Lady Hamilton's Rant
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LADY HAMILTON'S RANT. AKA and see "As she pissed she paddled it," "Black and Grey," "Duke of Hamilton's Reel," "Hambleton's Rant." English, Reel or Rant. England, Northumberland. G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Matt Seattle [1] notes: "A rousing Border pipe rant, this tune was already old by 1770, the earliest versions (Scottish) having variants of the Where Will Our Good Man Lie title (which is also used for another tune)."
Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection (Northumberland) [Seattle].
Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 307.
Recorded sources:
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