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LASSES TRUST IN PROVIDENCE. Shetlands, Shetland Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Brody, Phillips): AA'BB' (Martin & Hughes). The reel was in the repertory of the influential Shetland Fiddle Band in the mid-20th century, and therefore widely known in the islands. The phrase "Lasses trust in Providence" was evidently a once-common saying. It appears in a stanza from a Border ballad called "Willie's Gane to Melville Castle":

Then ben the house cam' Lady Bell,
"Gude troth ye need na craw,
Maybe the lad will fancy me,
And disappoint ye a'."
Doun the stair tripped Lady Jean,
The flower amang them a',
"O lasses trust in Providence
An' ye'll get husbands a'."

Source for notated version: Tom Anderson (Shetland) [Phillips].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 165. Martin & Hughes (Ho-ro-gheallaidh), 1990; p. 29. Phillips (Fiddlecase Tunebook: British Isles), 1989; p. 34.

Recorded sources: Culburnie CUL110, Abby Newton - "Crossing to Scotland" (1997). Culburnie Records CUL 121D, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - "Fire and Grace" (2004). Philo 2019, Tom Anderson and Aly Bain- "The Silver Bow." Thule 214, Tom Anderson.



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