Annotation:My Daddy's left me gear enough
X:1 T:My Daddy's left me gear enough T:My daddy left me gear enough a couter M:C| L:1/8 R:Air S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 181) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d2F2 ABcA|c2 F2F2d2|c2 G2 ABcA|A2D2D2d2| c2 F2 ABcA|c2 F2 ABcA|G4 A2G2|F2D2D2|| c2|f3g agfa|g2G2G2d2|g2a2 bagb|a2A2A2 de| f2 ef g2 fg|a2 ba g2 ag|efed cdcB|A2D2D2|| c2|f2g2g2 fg|g2 G2G2c2|f2 g2g2 fg|a2 A2 A2 de| f2 ef g2 fg|a2 ba g2 fe|defd cdcA|F2D2D2||
MY DADDY'S LEFT ME GEAR ENOUGH. AKA - "My daddy left me gear enough a couter." AKA and see "Willie Winkie's Testament." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The title is from a comic song that first appeared in William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius (1733), but is thought to date to the beginning of the 18th century. The title for the tune in Thomson's volume is "Willie Winkie's Testament." The first stanza of the song (which essentially is a listing of odd objects left to the protagonist by his father) goes:
My daddy left me gear enough
a couter and an auld beam plough
a nebbed staff a nutting tyne
a fishing wand wi' hook and line
Wi' twa auld stools and a dirt house
a jerkinet scare worth a louse
an auld pat that wants the lug
a spurtle and a sowen mug.