I'll Get Wedded in my Auld Claes
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"I'll Get Wedded in My Auld Claes", also known as "Bride Next", "Hexham Quadrille",<br> "I'll get Wedded in My Old Clothes", "My Wife She canno be Guided", "My Wife's a<br> Wanton Wee Thing" and "We'll all be wed in our old claes, we canna tell when we'll get new"<br> is an English, Northumberland and Scottish jig in G Major. <br> The parts are played AABBCC.<br> While a part of the core Northumbrian repertoire (c.f. Billy Pigg's recording), it is more<br> properly categorized as a Borders tune. The title (as "We'll all be wed in our old claes")<br> appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes The Northern<br> Minstrel's Budget, which he published c. 1800. Scottish versions are more numerous under<br> the "My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing" title, by which the tune is usually known. Matt Seattle<br> remarks that the title "I'll get wedded in my auld claes" is a local Northumbrian lyric<br> set to the tune and that it which was recorded by musician and collector John Bell in the<br> 19th century. <br> The jig has also been played by Cape Breton musicians who had it independent of Robin<br> Williamson's book (from which many 'revival' fiddlers learned the tune). Stan Chapman, an<br> influential teacher and fiddler from nearby Nova Scotia, learned it from an old tape of<br> Washabuck, Cape Breton, fiddler Joe MacLean. <br> It was printed in Williamson's English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976).<br> It was recorded by Billy Pigg on The Border Minstrel (1971), Stan Chapman on MacKinnon's<br> Brook: Traditional fiddle music of Cape Breton, vol 4" (2009), Mike Herr & Jill Smith on<br> The Quiet Path (2014). <br> <br>
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