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 (The)," "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'."
There are other names for the tune, whatever it provenance. Cumbrian musician John Rook entered it into his ms. collection as "Intrepid (The)," while it was published in London by Johnson as "Cutting at the Broom." James Oswald published it as "Portpatrick" in his Caledonian Pocket Companion. The FARNE [1] site gives alternate names "Churlish Husband," "Lucky Kitchen Reel," and "Patties Whim," and says was used as the melody for the Northumbrian song "Sawney Ogilvie's Duel With His Wife." Matt Seattle [2] also notes: "Abraham Mackintosh, a Scottish fiddler livng in Newcastle in the early 19th century, recorded the tune under a title nearly identical to this, showing that it was still known locally under this name, perhaps with associated lyrics. (Wm Christie (Aberdeenshire, 1820) also recorded a completely different tune with a similar title.)"
Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection (Northumberland) [Bruce & Stokoe).
Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 172.
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