Annotation:Johnny Lad
X:1 T:Johnny Lad N:Christie was a dancing master, fiddler N:and composer from Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Christie - Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, B:Waltzes &c. (Edinburgh, 1820, p. 19) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmin A|~d>efa gece|defd {f}e2 d^c|defd gece|Td>cAc {c}d2d:| c|~A2 FA {A}G2 Gc|{c}A2 Ac defd|cAFA {A}G2 Gc|T(A>G)Ac {c}d2 Td>c| TA2 FA {A}G2 Gc|{c}A2 Ac defg|aAFA {A}G2 Gc|{B}A>GAc {c}d2d|]
JOHNNY/JOHNNIE LAD. Scottish, Reel. D Minor (Christie): E Minor (Köhler, Lowe, Milne, Stewart-Robertson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Dunn & Graham, Lowe): AAB (Athole, Christie, Kerr): AABB (Honeyman, Kohler, Milne). Finlay Dunn and George Farquhar Graham, who published the tune as an untitled pipe reel around 1830, remarked:
This Reel does famously for the Highland way of dancing. It must appear most droll to a stranger. The right foot is first put down, the left drawn upon a level with it, the right foot advanced again, and a kind of bob or cursey for the fourth movement, this is not done smoothly but thumped rough telling every step, the setting is the same, perhaps with the addition of a few side kicks to finish, just as you or I would finish with a "Jetté Assemblee." But the lads brogue it so heartily, and maidens trip it neatly, that it is a question whether it is not more animated than the half sailing, half sleeping, and half walking of the higher classes.
