Annotation:My lame leg has kept me behind

Find traditional instrumental music



X:1 T:Se mo chas chrùbach T:My lame leg has kept me behind M:3/8 L:1/8 R:March S:Morison - Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 1 (c. 1880) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Amin ABd | e2A | {g}^f2d | e2A | ABd | e2A | g2e | dBG | ABd | e2A | {g}^f2d | e2g | gag | g^fe | dBg | dBG || gag | g^fe | ^f2g | a2e | gag | g^fe | dBg | dBG | gag | g^fe | ^f2g | a2b | bag | g^fe | dBg | dBG ||



MY LAME LEG. AKA - "Se mo chas chrùbach" (My lame leg has kept me behind)," "My Lame Foot." AKA and see "Cailleach an dudain," "Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land," "Lame Foot (The)," "Top of the Hill (The)," "Trippers." Scottish, Pipe Air or March (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Kerr prints a mixolydian mode version in the 4th collection of Merry Melodies (c. 1880's), as "Trippers."

The ancestral melody is William Thomson's "Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land", printed in Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2 (1733, No. 12).


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880; No. 12, p. 48. Morison (Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 1), c. 1880; No. 20, p. 10.






Back to My lame leg has kept me behind

0.00
(0 votes)