Annotation:Fairly Shot of Her (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
FAIRLY SHOT ON/OF HER [1]. AKA and see "'Weels Me I Gotten Shott On Her," "Freely Shot Ower"(? Shetland). Scottish, English; Jig (12/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Stokoe): AABBCCDD (O'Farrell, Vickers). The word 'shot' in the title may have several meanings, but the one which appears to fit has the sense of being depleted, exhausted or 'done with'. The tune appears in the Drummond Castle Manuscript (in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle), inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by David Young, 1734." Matt Seattle (1987) identifies William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian version as a fiddle setting of a tune that is more widely known in pipe versions. He finds a distanced variant in Atkinson's (Northumbrian) manuscript under the title "Weels Me I Gotten Shott On Her," and compares later Northumbrian versions in Bewick's and Bruce & Stokoe's publications, that he finds not particularly similar to Vickers'. The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes which he published c. 1800.
O'Neill (1922) remarks: "Altho McGoun's tune (see version #2,) was at hand for years, and was not known to our traditional musicians, I hesitated to claim it as Irish, until O'Farrell specifically notes it as being Irish in his Collection for the Irish or Union Pipes. Few variants, while preserving a distinct strain, differ so widely in their development. O'Farrell was a renowned Irish piper who took part in operatic performances on the London stage late in the 18th Century."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bewick's Pipe Tunes, 1986; No. 14. Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 187. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1), c. 1805; p. 49. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 158. Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 261.
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