Annotation:Stay and take your breeches wi' ye (1)
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STAY AND TAKE THE BREIKS WITH THEE. AKA - "Stay and take your breeches with you." AKA and see “Mr. Foote's Favourite,” “Welcome to Your Feet Again.” Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody can be found as "Stay and take your breeches with you" in the Drummond Castle Manuscript, Part 2 (1734, No. 18) in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle), inscribed "A Collection of the best Highland Reels written by David Young, W.M. & Accomptant." Young was an amateur violinist and writing master, based in Edinburgh.
Mentioned by Robert Woodrow in Correspondence (vol. xi, n. 96) that in 1716 it was played by the pipers of the third of three companies of Argyle's Highlanders that entered Perth and Dundee.
