Cuir Sa' Chiste Mhóir Mi

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Theme code Index	5L144 5226L
Also known as	Cuir Anns a'Chiste Mhóir, Old Time Wedding Reel (3), Beaton's Last, Big Coffin Reel, Miss Cruickshank's Reel, Put Me in the Box, Put Me in the Big Chest, Put Me in the Big Casket
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland, Canada
Genre/Style	Cape Breton/PEI, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	B
Accidental	2 flats
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	CANADA(Maritimes/English)
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Keith Norman MacDonald
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Skye Collection (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 137
Year of publication/Date of MS	1887
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CUIR SA' CHISTE MHOIR MI (Put Me in the Big Chest/Casket). AKA and see "Old Time Wedding Reel [3]," "Beaton's Last," "Big Coffin Reel," "Miss Cruikshank's Reel," "Put Me in the Box," and "Put Me in the Big Chest." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major (MacDonald): A Major (Shears). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (MacDonald): AABB (Shears). Attributed to Scottish fiddler-composer William Marshall (1748-1833), who called it "Miss Cruikshank's Reel." Gaelic words to the tune go:

cuir sa chiste mhoir mi
's coig bonnaich fo mo cheann
cuir sa chiste mhine mi
is beag is miste mi bhith ann

(put me in the big chest, with five bannocks under my head, put me in
the meal chest, I will be none the worse for being there)

cuir sa chiste mhine mi
cuir sa chiste mhine mi
cuir sa chiste mhine mi
is beag is miste mi bhith ann

(put me in the meal chest, put me in the meal chest, put me in the meal
chest,I will be none the worse for being there).

Shears calls his version a "Cape Breton setting of a 19th century reel."

Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 137. Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 48 (pipe setting. Appears as "Cuir Anns a'Chiste Mhóir Mi").

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T:Cuir sa chiste mhoir mi
T:Miss Cruikshank's Reel
T:Put Me in the Big Chest
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L:1/8
R:Reel
S:MacDonald - The Skye Collection (1887)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Bb
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