Annotation:I'll Lay No More with My Mother
Tune properties and standard notation
I'LL LAY NO MORE WITH MY MOTHER. Scottish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune was composed by Joseph Reinagle about 1783???. The title, according to Johnson, means, 'I won't need to share a bed with my mother any longer (as I'll soon have a husband)'. The melody appears in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768).
Source for notated version: Gillespie MS., 1768 (p. 87) [Johnson].
Printed sources: Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 83, p. 228.
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