> I asked on irtrad-l about what my notes said was Irish, and it turns
> out to have originated (as far as anyone there knew) with Jimmy
> Shand. So I thought I'd ask the experts over here ...
> A friend asked me if I knew anything about the tune, and I didn't,
> although I've played it for years. Any idea who may have written it,
> or whether it's maybe "trad"? If the latter, is it Irish (as the
> folk-dancers' notes seem to all say) or Scottish?
It's in Kerr's "Merry Melodies" volume 1 of the early 1880s, not very
different from the way Shand played it. I have once seen a composer
attribution, and remember being surprised that it was a British name
when I'd got it into my head that it was a Swedish tune, but I forget
who or where. If it is in fact Scottish, it's one of the earliest
Scottish tunes in that idiom.
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