Annotation:Geld Him Lasses
X:1 T:Geld him Lasses Geld him M:3/2 L:1/8 R:Triple Hornpipe B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6 (1760, p. 23 ) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d4A2 (Bc) d2D2|F2A4 d2c2B2|e4 B2 (cd) e2E2|G2B4 d2 c2 (BA):|| |:d3e (defg) (agfe)|d2f4a2 g2f2|(ef) g2 (fg)a2 (ga)b2|g2e4B2 Tc2(BA):| |:F2D2A2D2d2D2|F2A4d2 Tc2B2|e2E2G2E2e2E2| F2B4d2c2(BA)::dfaf) d2a2f2a2|d2f4a2g2f2| egbg e2b2g2b2|e2B4d2Tc2(BA)::(dcBA) (BAGF) (GFED)| F2A2D2 d2Tc2B2|(e^dcB) (cBA^G) (A^GFE)|^G2 B4 d2c2(BA):| |:(defg) a2d2a4|f2d4 d’2f2d2|efga b2e2b4|g2e4 B2Tc2(BA):|]
GELD HIM LASSES (GELD HIM). AKA and see "Chalk's Hornpipe," "Punchinello's Hornpipe," "Rusty Gulley (1)." Scottish, 'Old' or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. The tune with the title "Geld Him Lasses" was published in the mid-18th century, in the relatively less strict times between the reformation and Victorian eras. It appears in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), and in Book 6 of cellist-composer James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (Oswald must have liked the title: A different tune by the same title appears several times in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1760)).
David Herd & Hans Hecht (Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts, 1904, p. 182) print a fragment of the once popular song:
There came a fidler out of France,
I wat nae giff ye kend him, ....('know not if'...)
And he yon wi' our good wife:
Geld him, lasses, geld him!
