Annotation:Parson in Boots (2)

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PARSON IN/ON HIS BOOTS [2]. AKA and see “Miser (1),” “Murphy Delaney.” Scottish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection, while other early printing can be found in the 1768 [James] Gillespie Manuscript of Perth and Glasgow publisher James Aird’s collection. Although the Catholicised title, “Priest in his Boots”, is sometimes given as an alternate name for the tune, the main similarity is titular and not melodic. See also note for "Murphy Delaney", the name of a song (perhaps by English composer Charles Dibdin) set to the tune.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bremner (A Collection of Scots Reels), 1757; p. 15 (appears as “The Parson & his Boots). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 454. Gow (Complete Repository, Book 2), 1802; p. 15.

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