Annotation:Blue Bonnets over the Border (2)

Back to Blue Bonnets over the Border (2)

---

BLUE BONNETS OVER THE BORDER [2]. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBC. Nathaniel Gow (1766–1831) remarked that the tune was "Old" in his 1809 collection. See also the adaptation as an air in "Down Among the Banks of Roses."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 235. Gow (Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1809; p. 23. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 23. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 24.

Recorded sources:

---