Annotation:Lady Susan Stewart's Reel
X: 1 T:Lady Susan Stewart's Reel P:Hold the Lass 'till I Get at Her C:Caledonian Country Dances c.1754 B:RSCDS 5-9 Z:Anselm Lingnau <anselm@strathspey.org> R:Reel (8x32) M:C| L:1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/mirror/AnselmLingnau/Lady_Susan_Stewarts_Reel_AL.abc K:G "Am"A2 eg "D"fd"C"ec|"Am"A2 eg "G"BGdB|"Am"Aeeg "D"fd"C"eg|"D"fe"G"dg BGdB| "Am"A2 eg "D"fd"C"ec|"Am"A2 eg "G"BGdB|"Am"Aeeg "D"fd"C"eg|"D"fe"G"dg BGdB|| "Am"A2 a2 "D"fd"C"ec|"Am"A2 a2 "G"BGdB|"Am"A2 a2 "D"fd"C"eg|"D"fe"G"dg BGdB|| "Am"A2 a2 "D"fd"C"ec|"Am"A2 a2 "G"BGdB|"Am"A2 a2 "D"fd"C"eg|"D"fe"G"dg BGdB|]
LADY SUSAN STEWART'S REEL. AKA and see "Had the Lass Till I Win at Her," "Haud the Lass Till I Come at Her," "Hold the Bonny Lass," "Hod the Lass, Hod the Lass While I Run at Her," "Ha'd the Lass Till I Win at Her," "Lads of Boot." Scottish, Reel (cut time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The reel was published under several titles in the London in the 1750's. First, it was printed by John Johnson (1750) as "Lads of Boot" in his Choice Collection of Country Dances vol. 5. "Lady Susan Stewart's Reel" was published in London in the mid-1750's by John Walsh in one of his several Caledonian Country Dances volumes. Toward the end of the decade it was also published in London by David Rutherford in his Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances vol. 2, albeit under the title "Had the Lass till I win at her," a title that appears in other collections and manuscripts with several variations in spelling.
