Annotation:Tie the Bonnet
X:1 T:Tie the Bonnet M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland. 1001 Gems, 1907, no. 606 Z:François-Emmanuel de Wasseige N:The same tune has an A major key – which doesn’t work – in O'Neill's Music of N:Ireland. 1850 Melodies, 1903, p. 252, no. 1351 K:Ador A2(Ag) fdec|A2(Ac) BGGB|A2(Ag) fdef|gfge dBGB:| A2(af) gfed|cAeA cAce|a2(af) gfef|gfge dBGB| a2(af) gfed|cAeA cAce|afge fdef|gfge dBGB|]
TIE THE BONNET ("Neasg an biread" or "Ceangal an boinead"). AKA and see "Cottage in the Grove (2) (The)," "Down with the Mail," "Faraway Wedding (1) (The)," "Gravel Walks (The)," "Gravelled Walks to Granny (The)," "Highland Man that Kissed His Grannie (1)," "In and Out the Harbor (1)," "Jenny Lace Your Tight," "Jenny Tie Your Bonnet," "Lassie Tie Your Bonnet," "Lizzie's Bonnet," "Rambler's Rest," "Upstairs in a Tent (2)." Irish, Reel (cut time). A Mixolydian (O'Neill/1903): A Dorian (O'Neill/1909). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (O'Neill/1850): AABB (Mulvihill, O'Neill/Krassen). “Gravel Walks (The) (to Granny)” is a related tune. The first strain of "Tie the Bonnet" is similar and perhaps cognate to the first strain of the old English reel "Haud the Lass Till I Come at Her" but the second strains differ.
