Annotation:Good Morning to Your Night Cap (2)
X:2 T:Good morrow to your night cap [2] M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:"This Tune may be played Slow" B:Gow - 2nd Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, 3rd ed., p. 36 (orig. 1788) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Bmin F|TB>cdB|F2 TF^G|ABcd|{c/d/}e2 Tdc|TB>cdB|F2 TFg|fedc|{c}B2B:| |:c|.c.cTdf|eeTef|ddTdf|ecAc|ddTd>f|eee>g|Tf>edc|{c}B2B:||
GOOD MORNING TO YOUR NIGHT CAP [2]. AKA - "Good morrow to your night cap." AKA and see "Drummer (1) (The)." Scottish, Country Dance Tune. A Minor (Harding's): G Dorian (Alexander): B Minor (Gow). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Alexander): AABB (Gow). The Gows included the melody in a section of country dances fashionable in Edinburgh in the 1787-88 season, and it is interesting to note that they included the direction "May by played slow", making it a more stately air. The melody also appears in the John Rook manuscript of 1840 ("Upwards of 1260 Airs...Waverton (Cumbria), written by the selector, for his amusement on the above instruments...").
The second strain of "Good Morning to Your Night Cap [2]" is similar to that of "Good Morning to Your Night Cap (1)," but the first strains are less similar and perhaps not related at all.
See note for "annotation:Good Morning to Your Night Cap (1)" for explanation of the title.
