Jack Campin wrote: > > > 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
See "Morgan Rattler" and variant "Jackson's Bouner Burger" in the Irish tune index on my website for many copies of each. Thomas Hudson's song "Morgan Rattler" was written more than 40 years after the tune appeared. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my no-spam website - www.erols.com/olsonw or just <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> Motto: Keep at it; muddling through always works. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
