Annotation:Mrs. J.W. Bourke
X:1 T:Mrs. J.W. Bourke M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Gow – Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1800) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F C|TF2 (.AF) E(GG>)B|AFAc Tf2 (.c.f)|dBcF E(GG>)B|AcCE F2F:|| c|fcfa gceg|a/g/f g/f/e Tf2 c>B|AcdB c(ff>).d|cBAG T.F2 (F>.c)| fcfa gceg|(a/g/)f (g/f/)e Tf2 cf|AfcA .f(.dTc>B)|AcCE (F2F)||
MRS. J. W. BOURKE. AKA - "Mrs. Bourke." AKA and see "Lady Augusta Murray," "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)," "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)." Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title possibly refers to a Miss Kerr of Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London, who, in 1800, married Rev. J.W. Bourke, later Vicar of St. Martins, Shropshire. They had one child, a boy, who went sailing on a river while at college and drowned when his boat capsized. However, the melody itself first appears in Perthshire fiddle-composer Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection as "Lady Augusta Murray." The Gows printed it as "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)" The Rev. Luke Donnellan's Connaght reel "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)" is a more distanced version of Dow's tune.
