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