Annotation:Reel of Bogie (2)

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X:1 T:Reel of Bogie [2] M:C| L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1794 (No. 252, p. 106) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C c2 cA cGGA|c>dcA G2 G2|Acdc defg|{f}e2 dc A2 GA:| L:1/16 |:c4 (e/f/g3) c4 (e/f/g3)|c3dc2A2 G4G4|A2c2d2c2 d2e2f2g2|{f}e4 d2c2 A4 G2A2:|]


REEL OF BOGIE [2], THE. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The “Reels of Bogie” in Robert Burns’ song (Merry Muses of Caledonia, 1798, No. 158) were a euphemism for fornication:

The lads ne’er think it is amiss,
To bang the holes whereout they piss,
And that’s the reels o’ Bogie.
[Gordon Williams: Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, 1994]

Preston (Preston’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1794). Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 47.


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