Annotation:Merry Maid's Wedding
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MERRY MAID'S WEDDING. AKA and see "Four and Twenty Highlandmen (1)," "Haughs of Cromdale (The)," "Lord Kingarth," "Oyster Wives Rant (The)," "Spilling of the Kail (The)." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's collection. It appears under the title "Sud mar chaidh an càl a dholidh" (The Spilling of the Kail) in Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn's Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes (1848). James Kerr printed a version as "Lord Kingarth." The first strain is shared with the "Haughs of Cromdale (The)" family of tunes, but the second strain differs.
