Annotation:Where will Our Good Man Lay? (1)
Back to Where will Our Good Man Lay? (1)
WHERE/WHAR WAD OUR GUDMAN/BONNIE ANNIE LYE/LAYE? AKA and see "Red House, "Red House in Cardiff." Scottish, English; Air (). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (most versions). The same tune ("Red House") is the ancestor to "John Peel."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1778; No. 95. Gow (Vocal Melodies of Scotland), 1822; p. 34. Johnson (The Scots Musical Museum, vol. VI), 1787 1803, No. 324. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 2), 1760; p. 22. Smith (Scottish Minstrel, vol. VI), 1820 24, p. 48.
Recorded sources: