Annotation:Lass and the Money is All My Own (The)
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LASS AND THE MONEY IS ALL MY OWN, THE. AKA and see "Churlish Husband," "Cutting at the Broom," "Intrepid," "Lucky Kitchens Reel," "Patties Whim," "Portpatrick," "Port Patrick." English, Jig. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title is Northumbrian, although the tune is an old Scotch melody called "Portpatrick," attributed (by Alison Kinnaird) to Blind Roderick Morison, or Rory Dall (c. 1660-1713), harper to the MacLeods of Skye. Confusingly, there was another 17th century harper named Rory Dall O'Cathain, and tunes are often attributed to one or the other without realizing they were different musicians. The latter Rory Dall was of Irish extracton, however. Kinnaird (in liner notes to her 1978 album "The Harp Key") posits: "It is possible that those pieces collected in Perthshire, such as 'Port Atholl' or 'Port Patrick' were by the Irish Rory Dall, but it does seem likely that the tunes were composed in Scotland, partly because of their titles, and also because most of them are in a 'Scottish style'."
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Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 172.
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