Fran Strong requested the music for "Johnnie Cope'' I inadvertently erased the e-mail address so am replying this way. The Margaree fiddler Angus Allan Gillis version of this tune [and presumably Natalie's] is identical to the version in "O'Neill's Irish Music" page 63. A footnote in the collection states " A footnote in Wood's songs of Scotland states that this old air originally consisted of one strain. The chorus or burden of a silly song, adapted to it was the first strain repeated an octave higher. The simple air although claimed as Scotch is in the Irish style and is known all over Ireland. The above setting without the harmonization was copied from ' The Repository of Scots and Irish Airs' printed in 1799".
I f memory serves there is another tune called "Johnnie Cope" played in Cape Breton which is usually referred as the "Mary Mac Donald" [another CB fiddler] version. Pianist Doug Mac Phee would know. Are you there Doug? Alexander Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
