Annotation:Welcome to Your Feet Again
X:1 T:Your welcome to your feet again [1] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Robert Bremner - Collection of Scots Reels, Country Dances (1757, p. 14) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C CEGA cED2|CEGA cGAc|FdEc dEDE|CEGA cGAc:| |:gcga gede|gcga gage|fage dcde|cGAG cGAc:|]
WELCOME TO YOUR FEET/FOOT AGAIN. AKA - "Your Welcome to Your Foot," "Welcome to your foot again (1)." AKA and see: "Bonny Lass wi' the Tocher," "Lady's Fancy (8)," "Mr. Foote's Favourite," "Stay a Wee Bit Bonny Lad," "Stay and take the breiks with thee," "Stay and take your breeches wi' ye (2)." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Reel or Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Gow): AAB (Glen, Kerr, Mackintosh): ABB' (Cranford, Honeyman): AABB (Bremner, Young): AA'BB' (Athole). The tune appears in the Drummond Castle Manuscript Part 2 (1734, No. 44, 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." Nathaniel Gow attributed the strathspey to biography:John Riddle, although it has not been found in Riddle's printed collections. The reel has an alternate title of "Stay and take your breeches wi' ye (2)" which also happens to be the name of another, musically unrelated tune in the Drummond Castle Manuscript (for which see "Stay and take your breeches wi' ye (1)."
John Glen (1891) finds it in Robert Bremner's A Collection of Scots Reel (1757), where it is set as a reel, as it is in David Young's 1734 manuscript (which Glen was apparently not aware of). Young, in his subsequent manuscript collection (The MacFarlane Manuscript, c. 1740, Nos. 181 & 192) entered versions of the reel as "Shàill an theil do raotan agad" and "Soger Lad or Anybody (A)." The James Knox Manuscript has the tune as "Tay & take your Breeches with you" (No. 88, f. 26). Multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria, entered a version of the melody in his large 1840 music collection as "Lady's Fancy."
