Annotation:When You've Hooked Him Hold Him Fast
X:1 T:When You’ve Hooked Him Hold Him Fast C:Joseph Lowe M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B: Joseph Lowe - Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, B:book 5 (1859, p. 4) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A f|eaca e/e/e =g2|d=gBg d/d/d f2|eaca eaef|=gegB A2 A:| |:f|eAcA aAcA|(d/c/B/A/) =GB dB=GB|eAcA aAcA|dBec A/A/A A:|]
WHEN YOU’VE HOOKED HIM, HOLD HIM FAST. AKA and see "Inch of Perth." Scottish; Strathspey and Reel (whole time). Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is sometimes attributed to fiddler-composer biography:Joseph Lowe (1797-1866), who published a set of six collections in Scotland in the 1840's, under the title Collection of Strathspeys Jigs and Reels (1844-45). It appears in his collection as "When You've Hooked Him, Hold Him Fast," but is in fact a close variant of Robert Bremner's earlier "Inch of Perth."
