Annotation:My Lady's Goon Has Gairs Upon It

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MY LADY'S GOON HAS GAIRS ON'T. Scottish, Strathspey. C Major (Cole): F Major (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Goon=gown. A goonie is a nightie. Gairs means pleats, as in pleated sleeves, which were sometimes accented with a different material or color than the dress. The tune appears in Niel Gow's collection, and at one time had words set to it. The Glasgow-published British Minstrel, and Musical and Literary Miscellany (1843) printed this tune along with "Howlet and the Weazle (The)", and opined:

They both attained no very honourable notoriety from their old blackguard names, and the blackguard songs united with them. Dare we hope that the improved taste, and more perfect and pure education which prevails in our age, will be able to banish from all memories the rubbish which has almost incurably contaminated the popular mind, and which blurs the exquisite beauty of our old lyrical remains.

The Irish "Murphy's Reel (3)" has some melodic similarities in the first several bars.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: The British Minstrel, 1843; p. 108. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 123. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 149. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 162.

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