Annotation:Lord MacDonald (1)
X:1 T:Lord MacDonald [1] M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A<G|F<A Af/g/ a>fe>d|g>fe>d B>dB>A|F<A Af/g/ a>fe>d|e/f/g f/g/a e2d:| |:A|F<A A>B A>B A<F|G/G/G G2 G>AB>G|F<A A>B A>BA>F|G>BA>F D2D:| |:A/G/|F<A Af/g/ a>fe>d|g>fe>d B<d B>A|F<A Af/g/ a>fe>d|e/f/g e/g/a e2d:| |:g|f<a a>b a>ba>f|g/g/g g2 g>ab>g|f<a a>b a>ba>f|g<a f>g e2d:|
LORD MACDONALD [1]. AKA and see "Braes of Mar (1) (The)," "Johnny Will You Marry Me/Johnny Won't You Marry Me" "MacDonald's Rant," "Sir Alex MacDonald's Reel," "Strath Spray's Rant." Scottish, Strathspey or Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AABBCCDD (Athole, Gow, Skye). "Old Reel," noted the Gows in their Complete Repository Part 3 (1806), and indeed it was, for it appears in the 1741 McFarlane Manuscript of musician and writing master David Young as "Sir Alex MacDonald's Reel" (see "MacDonald's Rant"), and in London music publisher John Walsh's
Surenne (1851) gives the alternate title (?), "O Mither, Ont Bodie but the Duddy Blacksmith," and says the version is an "old set."
