Annotation:Rantin' Roarin' Highlandman
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RANTIN' ROARIN' HIGHLANDMAN. Scottish, Reel (cut or 2/4 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 110, p. 39. Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 31.
Recorded sources:
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