> I guess these are mostly Amercan tunes, but how do you feel about > "rattlers"--which are sometimes noted as retreats? "Morgan's Rattler" > also seems to be kind of speedy, but maybe i'm playing it wrong.
"Morgan Rattler" is from the 1780s, well before the retreat march was invented. I had no idea it was a genre: there is a fragmentary verse from C.K. Sharpe's manuscripts with the punchline "I lathered her up with my Morgan Rattler", which kinda suggests he didn't have 3-wheelers in mind either. Where do you find these "rattler" tunes? =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
