Annotation:I Wish You Wou'd Marry Me Now
X:1 T:I Wish You would Marry Me now N:”Very Old” M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B: Joseph Lowe - Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, B:book 5 (1844-45, p. 16) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amin A|(EA)AB c2 ce|dcBA GABG|AE E/E/E c2 ce|dBgB A/A/A A:| B|(Aa)a^g a2 e^f|gedg BGdB|Aaa^g a2 (e^f)|gedB A/A/A (AB)| Aaa^g a2 (e^f)|gedg BGdB|cAdB ec(a^f)|gegB A/A/A A||
I WISH YOU WOU'D MARRY ME NOW. AKA and see “George Carnegie's Strathspey,” “Inverara Rant,” “Marry Me Now,” "Miss Mary Ogston's Strathspey," “Proposal (2)(The).” Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection, although early printings also appears in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768) and Preston’s Collection of Scots Reels and Country Dances (1768). O’Neill reprints Preston’s setting, identical to that in the Glen collection. Researcher Conor Ward finds the tune under the title "Miss Mary Ogston's Strathspey" in John Morison's 1797 collection of marches. See also the related “Lady Warkworth's Reel (1)” and “Morpeth Lasses.”
