Annotation:Tipperty's Jean
X: 1 T:Tipperty's Jean M:6/8 L:1/8 C:J. Scott Skinner R:Jig F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/mirror/BetsyHooper/Tippertys_Jean.abc K:D A|"D"FAA ABc|"D"dAA "D7"A2d|"G"GBB Bcd|"A7"e3 e2A|"D"f2f "A7"efe| "D"dAA Adc|"G"Bed "A7"cBA|"D"d3 d2:||A|"D"dfa afd|"Em"egb bge| "D"fed dcd|"A7"e3 e2 A|"D"dfa afd|"Em"egb bge|"D"afd "A7"cBc|"D"d3 d3:|| F|"Bm"BBB Bcd|"F#7"cFF F2F|"Bm"BBB Bcd|"F#7"c3 c2F|"Bm"f2f efe| "D"dAA Adc|"G"Bed "A7"cBc|"D"d3 d2F| "Bm"FBB Bcd|"F#7"cFF F2F|"Bm"BBB Bcd| "F#7"c3 c2F|"Bm"fff "A7"efe|"D"dAA Aag|"G"fed " A7"cBc|"D"d3 d2||
TIPPERTY’S JEAN. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer biography:J. Scott Skinner and dedicated to Dr. Buchan of Stonehaven, a town that lies approximately 16 miles south of Aberdeen on the east coast of Scotland. Dr. Patrick Buchan was trained as a medial doctor and practiced for a short time as a country doctor before turning his energies to the mercantile trade with the West Indies, and later the insurance business. He made his fortune and retired to his estate, Orchardhill, Stonehaven. He was a prodigious talent, a poet of note (who usually chose to remain anonymous for his works), and a skilled violinist deeply involved in Scottish music. He was a collector of folk tales, an author of numerous books, articles, poems and songs, and he corresponded with literary figures of the time. He died at age 66 in 1881, the year Skinner's Miller o' Hirn collection was published.
"Tipperty's Jean" refers to a song of that name contained in the first of Buchan's two poems entitled Legends of the North: The Guidman Oʹ Inglismill and The Fairy Bride (1873), written by him in "broad Buchan" dialect about a beauty who attracts numerous suitors, rejecting all (even the rich old laird); however, having enough money to live on she chooses to marry "puir Johnny".
