Annotation:Mrs. Weymss of Cuttle Hill
X:2 T:Mrs. Weyme’s of Cuttlehill’s Strathspey M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Strathspey Q:"Slow" C:Nathaniel Gow B:Gow – 3rd Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels, 3rd ed., p. 23 (orig. 1792) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin {A}BGGG|(DG)GG|BGGB|d2 (d/e/d/c/)|BGTG>F|DG TGA/B/| AFFA|c2 (d/c/)B/A/:||TB>cdd|{^f}gddd|TB>cdd|Tg>a {g/a/}b2| (B/A/B/c/) (d/c/d/=e/)|fc Tc>B|AFFA|c2 (d/c/B/A/)|B>cdd|{^f}gddd| (B/A/B/).c/ dd|gdg>(a|b>)(g a>)(^f|g>)(d=f>)c|AFFA|c2 (d/c/).B/.A/||
MRS. WEYME/WEMYSS OF CUTTLEHILL. AKA and see "Lochgary's." Scottish, Slow Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). James Manson, editor of Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 2 (1853), says: "The modern song of “St. Patrick was a Gentleman” is sung to the above air." The person of the title was the wife of William Wemyss (pronounced ‘Weems’), laird of Cuttlehill, a mansion in Aberdour parish, Fife. Wemyss was a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.
A version of the tune was published a year after the Gows in Anderson's second volume of 1793 as "Lochgary's." See also the similar, perhaps cognate "Alasdair MacAlister."
