Annotation:We'll Aye Gang Back to Yon Town (1)

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X:1 T:We’ll aye gang back to Yon Town [1] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Alexander Walker – Collection of Strathspeys, Marches, Reels &c. B:(Aberdeen, 1866, p. 66) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin F|(DG)GF GA d2|cdcA F2 FC|(DG)GF Gc g2|fdcA (G2G):| c|d(gg)a bagf|(cf)fg agfc|d(gg)a bagf|dfcA {A}(G2 G)A| d(gg)a bagf|c(ff)g agfc|bgaf gefd|cAfA (G2A)||



WE'LL AYE GANG BACK TO YON TOWN [1]. Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Walker, born in Strathbogie, Scotland, in 1819, the title undoubtedly a take-off on the famous “I'll Gang Nae Mair to Yon Town/We'll gang nae mair to yon Town.” According to Paul Stewart Cranford (1991) the tune still has currency among Cape Breton fiddlers.


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 192, p. 66.

Recorded sources : - Rounder RO7023, Natalie MacMaster - “No Boundaries” (1996).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]



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