Canna Get My Mare Tamed - G MajorReel

Origin: Shetland

This is a Shetland reel brought to Cambridge NY by fiddler and flutist Bliss McIntosh, who studied in the Shetland Islands in the summer of 1974, but does not otherwise seem to have entered documented North American traditional music circles. It appeared on the album Shetland Fiddlers on Stage (leader Tom Anderson). The A part has words as follows:

Canna get my mare tamed
Peerie shugie, bonnie shugie,
Canna get my mare tamed
What shall I do?

Tame her when the snaw (snow) comes
Peerie shugie, bonnie shugie,
Tame her when the snaw comes
That’s what you’ll do.

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Ref: http://www.nigelgatherer.com/perf/fiddlers/shetl.html

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