Annotation:Lady Betty Hay
X: 1 T: Lady Betty Hay's Reel %R: reel B: "Scots Reel & Country Dances for the Year 1769", R.Bremner, ed. p.106 #1 F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=104993891 Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: The 2nd strain has initial repeat but no final repeat symbol; fixed. M: C| L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1769/Bremner/SRCD.abc K: Gmix % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 1 B |G/G/G dc d3 g | .f(dTcA) FGAF |G/G/G (BG) Bd-df | AFcA G3 :| |: (f |g)aTgf dfga | .f(dTcA) FGA(f |g)aTgf dfga | .f(dTcA) G3 f | gaTgf dfga | (f/d/c) (d/c/A) cdfa |gafg dfcf | AFcA G3 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 2 clef=bass middle=d z |g2g2 g2g2 | f2f2 f2f2 | g2g2 g2g2 | d2d2 G2G :| |: z | g2g2 g2g2 | f2f2 f2f2 |g2g2 g2g2 | d2d2 G2G2 | g2g2 g2g2 | f2f2 f2f2 | g2a2 b2c'2 | d'2d2 g2g :| % - - - - - - - - - - Dance description - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% Turn your Partner and cast of one Cu: .| %% turn and cast up again :| %% gallop down two Cu: .|. %% up again and cast off :|: %% set corners and turn .| %% and Hey :| %%endtext %%sep 2 2 400
LADY BETTY HAY. AKA - "Lady Betty Hay's Reel." AKA and see "Lady Grove's Rant," "Miss Dundas's Reel," "Sir Ronald McDonald's Reel." Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Robert Bremner's 2nd collection (p. 106).
