Annotation:Lady Mary Lindsay
X:1 T:Lady Mary Lindsay's Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:John Riddell of Ayr – Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets &c. B:for the Violin (1782, p. 33) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C g|{f}edc(G cd)cE|TDCDE {E}A2 Ag|{f}edcG cdc(E|TDC)DE C2C:| (E/F/|GA)GE GAcd|Tedce d2 d(E/F/|GA)GE GAcd|egde c2 cE/F/| GAGE GAcd|egfe dc(de/f/|ga)ge fedc|AGAB c2c||
LADY MARY LINDSAY. AKA - "Lady Mary Lindsay's Reel." Scottish, Reel (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:John Riddell's 1782 collection (p. 33). The second strain of this tune is the same as the first part of the Irish reel "Fisherman's Lilt (1)."