Annotation:Niel Gow's Wife (2)
NIEL GOW'S WIFE [2]. AKA and see "De'el's Dead," "Drunken Fyfie," "Drunken Wife (The)," "Mrs. Dundas McQueen." English, Reel. England; Northumberland/Cumbria. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The reel was also entered into the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria). London music publisher's somewhat earlier "De'el's Dead" is a version of the tune, cognate in the first strain, and more loosely cognate in the second strain.
