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X:2 T:Follow her over the border M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Gow - 2nd Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, p. 14, 3rd ed. (orig. 1788) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F d|Tc2A AFA AFA|Tc2(A A)FA c2f|Tc2A AFA AFA|TB2G GAG B2:| |:d|Tc.A.A f.A.A c.A.A|cAA fAA Tc2d|cAA fAA cAA|TB2G GAG B2:||

FOLLOW HER OVER THE BORDER. AKA - "Follow Her Over." AKA and see "Hey My Kitten," "Hey the hedrie Falie." English, (Slip) Jig (9/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major (Bruce & Stokoe): F Major (Gow): A Major (Cocks). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title may be a reference to elopement, when couples (below the age of 21 in England) would meet at places like wikipedia:Gretna_Green, Dumfriesshire, to get married. The tune was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter, a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.

See also the related (in the first strain) "Jaunting Car for Six."

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 179. Cocks (Tutor for the Northumbrian Half-Long Bagpipes), 1925; No. 27, p. 14. Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 14 (3rd edition). Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 149, p. 57 (ms. originally dated 1850).

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