HIGHLAND LADDIE [3], THE. AKA - "Highland Lad (A)." AKA and see "Ranting Highlandman (1) (The)," "White Cockade (1) (The)." Scottish, English; March, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Highland Laddie [3]," AKA - "Highland Lad", was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England. Later in the century, Cumbrian musician Henry Stables also entered it into his music copybook. The tune is almost universally known as "White Cockade (1) (The)."
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 282, p. 103 (ms. originally dated 1850).
