X:1
T:Miss Hay's Reel [3]
M:C
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:T. Skillern -- Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1780
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:F
c|AFFc (A/B/c/A/) Fc|fc (A/B/c/A/) BGGc|AFFc (A/B/c/A/) Fc|f2 (a/g/f/e/) fF F:|
|:c|f2 a/g/f gdfc|f/g/a f/g/a gddg|f2 a/g/f gdfc|fdcB AF F:|]
MISS HAY'S REEL [3]. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Edinburgh music publisher Neil Stewart's 1761 Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances (p. 5).
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Skillern (Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1780), 1780; p. 4. Thomas Straight (24 Favourite Dances the Year 1783), London; p. 1.
