The Ewie Wi' the Crooked Horn
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Ewie Wi' the Crooked Horn" (in Gaelic "A' Chaora chrom" or "Ard Mhacha"), also<br> known as "Bob with the One Horn", "Carron's Reel", "The Crooked Horn Ewe",<br> "The Ewe Reel", "The Kerry Lasses" and "The Ram with the Crooked Horn" is a<br> Scottish strathspey or Irish highland in G Dorian (Athole, Gow), G Minor (Fraser,<br> Hunter, Kerr, Ross) or A Minor (Honeyman). The parts are played AB (Kerr), AAB<br> (Athole, Fraser, Gow, Hunter, Ross) or AABB (Honeyman).<br> The ewe with the crooked horn refers to a (probably illegal) whisky still, with its<br> distilling tube which "gave more milk than all the sheep in the country".<br> It was printed in<br> Banalari's Celtic Encyclopedia (1999),<br> Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986),<br> Fraser's The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles<br> (1816),<br> Gow's The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1784)(revised 1801),<br> Gow's Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels (1822),<br> Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Jones' Complete Tutor Violin (c.1815),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 3,<br> Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Part Third (1881-1885),<br> McGlashan's A Collection of Reels (c.1786)(appears as "Crooked Horn Ewe"),<br> Ross' Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys (1780),<br> Rutherford's 24 Country Dances for 1758 and<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884).<br> It was recorded by Alasdair Fraser & Tony MacManus on Return to Kintail (1999),<br> Tony Cuffe on Sae Will We Yet (2003),<br> The Tannahill Weavers on The Tannahill Weavers (1979) and<br> Natalie MacMaster on My Roots are Showing (2000). <br>
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