Annotation:Welcome to Your Feet Again

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WELCOME TO YOUR FEET/FOOT AGAIN. Scottish, Reel or Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Gow): AAB (Glen, Kerr): ABB' (Cranford, Honeyman): AABB (Bremner): AA'BB' (Athole). The tune appears in the Drummond Castle Manuscript (in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle), 1734, inscribed "A Collection of the best Highland Reels written by David Young, W.M. & Accomptant." John Glen (1891) finds it in Robert Bremner's A Collection of Scots Reel (1757), where it is set as a reel.

Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources: Bremner (A Collection of Scots Reels), 1757; p. 14 (appears as “Your welcome to your feet again”). Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 114, p. 47. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Music, vol. 1), 1891; p. 9. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 1), 1799; p. 19. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 15. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880; Set 20, No. 5, p. 13. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 61.

Recorded sources: Breton Books & Music BOC 1HO, Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald - “Classic Cuts” (originally issued on Celtic Records CX 40). Rounder Records, Carl MacKenzie - “Welcome to Your Feet Again” (1976). WMT002, Wendy MacIsaac – “That’s What You Get” (1998?).