Annotation:When Pettie came over the Glen

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WHEN PETTIE CAME OVER THE GLEN. AKA and see “Night before Larry was Stretched (The).” Scottish, Jig (9/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in Robert Petrie’s Fourth Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jiggs and Country Dances, published in Edinburgh in 1805. He identifies the tune as ‘Irish’. See note for “annotation:Night before Larry was Stretched (The)” for origins.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 22. Petrie (A Fourth Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jiggs and Country Dances), c. 1805.

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