Annotation:Canty Body
Tune properties and standard notation
CANTY BRODY/BODY. AKA and see "Thomson's Got a Dirk." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the tune first published in Alexander McGlashan's collection. 'Canty' means jolly or happy in Scots dialect.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1780/81; p. 27.
Recorded sources: