Annotation:Taste da Green
X:1 T:Taste da Green T:Aald Wife o Niddister, Da N:Transcribed from the playing of Peter Scollay, Burravoe, Shetland, N:recorded in the field in 1954 by Iain Maclean M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel D:https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/89467?l=en Z:Andrew Kuntz K:D |:AFAB de{g}f2|e-fdF E2E2|AFAB defg|fdec d2d2:| |:dfa2 fd{fg}f2|dfaf (e/f/e) e2| df a2 fdfa |fdec d2d2:|
X:1
T:Taste da Green
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Anderson & Georgeson – Da Mirrie Dancers (1970, p. 23)
K:D
B|A2 (AB) defd|(3fff (eF) E2 EF|AFAB defd|cAdF D2D:|
|:f2a2 fd a2|(fd)gf e2e2|dfaf df a2|(fd)ef d2d:|]
TASTE DA GREEN. AKA and see "Aald Wife o Niddister (Da)." Shetland, Shetland Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This reel celebrates the coming of spring, when sheep could again graze off the new grass of the meadows. A variant of the tune was also found on Yell, Shetland, though with the parts reversed.
