Annotation:Old Man Will Never Die (The)
X:1 T:Auld Man ill ne'er die, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Aird - Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (1785, p. 21) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G GBdG e2 eg|dBGB A/A/A A2|GBdB e2 ef|gagd B/B/B B2:|| gaT(ge) dedB|gaT(ge) agab|gage dega|gegd B/B/B B2| gage dedB|gage f/e/f/g/ ab|gb eg dega|b/a/g/f/ gd B/B/B B2||
OLD MAN WILL NEVER DIE, THE. AKA- "Auld Man is Long a Dying (The)," "Auld Man Ill Ne'er Die (The)," "Old Man is Long a Dying (The)." AKA and see "Bridge of Nairn (The)," "Old Man (4) (The)," "Trip to Bath (4)." Scottish, Reel or Pipe March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 67). Robert Bremner published it as "Bridge of Nairn (The)" in London in 1768, and it was printed c. 1775 by London music publishers Straight and Skillern as "Trip to Bath (4)" in their Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775, No. 104, p. 52).
