Kate Dalrymple
"Kate Dalrymple" is a traditional Scottish reel. The melody is based on an ancient folk-tune. There are accompanying words in Scots, written by William Watt.[1] It tells the tale of the eponymous spinster.
The National Portrait Gallery in London has a painting of the real Kate Dalrymple, a society beauty in her youth.
It is used by the BBC as the theme music for the BBC Radio Scotland dance music programme Take the Floor.
Footnotes
- MacMahon, Desmond (1939) Nelson's New National and Folk Song Book; pt. II. London: Thomas Nelson; pp. 92-93
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