Annotation:Tocherless Lass (1) (The)
X:1 T:Ge d' tha mi gun Chrodh gun aighean T:Though I am without cows or queys M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Slow with Feeling and Expression" B:Finlay Dunn & George Farquhar Graham – “Celtic Melodies, Being a B:Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, Pipe-Reels, and B:Cainntearachd, vol. 1” (Edinburgh, c. 1830, No. 6, p. 4) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F V:1 "Chorus"F>F FF|{F}!fermata!f>e {e}dc|{c}!fermata!d>c {dc}AF|{A}GF DC|{FG}A>G F>F| GA dc|d<f {d}c>A|{A}G2 F>F||"Air"F>F FF|{F}f>e {e}dc|d<f A<c| {A}GF DC|{FG}A>G F>F|GA dc|d<f {d}c>A|{A}G2F>F|| V:2 clef = bass F,2F,2|A,2z2|B,2z2|C,2C,,2|F,2z2| F,2z2|B,2A,2|C,2F,2||F,2F,2|A,2z2|B,2A,2| C,2C,2|F,2F,2|C,2z2|B,2A,2|C,2F,2||
TOCHERLESS LASS [1], THE. AKA – “Gun chrodh gun aighean,” “The lass without a dowry.” Scottish, Air and Pipe Tune (whole time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. English folklorist Lucy Broadwood recorded the song on a wax cylinder from the singing of John MacLennan in 1908[1], and, in 1958, by Helen Creighton, from the singing of John Archie Campbell, of Heatherdale, Prince Edward Island.
