The Bonny Lass of Fisherrow
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Bonny Lass of Fisherrow", in Gaelic "Cait Bhoidheach", also known as<br> "Bonnie Kate/Bonny Kate" or "The Boys of Limerick" is a Scottish (originally), English and<br> Canadian reel in C Major. It is known in England and Northumberland and in Canada in<br> Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. In Ireland a similar tune is known as<br> "The Boys of Limerick".<br> The parts are played AB (Kerr), AAB (Athole, Gow, Lowe), AABB' (Phillips) or<br> AA'BB' (Cranford).<br> Fisherrow is a harbour and former fishing village at Musselburgh,<br> East Lothian, Scotland, to the east of Edinburgh, and west of the river Esk.<br> The tune was composed by Edinburgh composer and music teacher Daniel Dow (1732–1783) who was<br> most famous as the composer of "Money Musk". It has been thought by some to be among the<br> dozen or so of Dow's best compositions.<br> It was printed in London by the Thompsons in their Compleat Collection of 200<br> Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788), (this version was reprinted by<br> Brendan Breathnach in his Ceol Rince na hÉirreann, vol. 1 (1963)).<br> It was also printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5<br> (1797),<br> Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986),<br> Cranford's Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes (1995),<br> Dow's Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances (c. 1775),<br> Gow's Complete Repository, Part 3 (1806),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 3 (c. 1880's),<br> Joseph Lowe's Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 4 (1844–1845),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996) and<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles (1989) (appears as "Bonnie Lass of Fisherow"),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Thompson's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1787 (1787) and<br> Woolfe's William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book (2007) (ms. originally dated 1850).<br> It was recorded by Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald on Classic Cuts,<br> Angus Chisholm (1935) (78 RPM) and on<br> The Early Recordings of Angus Chisolm (appears as "Bonnie Lass of Fisherow").<br>
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