Annotation:Scots came over the Border (The)
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SCOTS CAME OVER THE BORDER (THE). AKA and see: "Border Reel," "Noble Squire Dacre," "Wright's Rant." English, Jig (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Scots came over the Border" can be found in the large 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, and is a different tune than the one that usually goes by that title (or its variant title formations). Vickers researcher Matt Seattle finds the tune correspondent with David Young's "Border Reel" and the Walsh's "Wright's Rant," and with another Borders tune, Riddell's "Noble Squire Dacre (Comes over the Border)."
