My Kindly Sweetheart reel

This goes well in a set with The Ale Is Dear.Transcribed from a Silly Wizard album.Johnny Cunningham will be sadly missed.

Ceol na Fidhle Vol. IV has a setting of this tune with the Gallic title, Mo Chuachag Laghach, translated as My Gentle Milkmaid:

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bmin
|:B2d2 cBBc|B2d2 feef|B2d2 cB Bd|cAAc fe ef:|
|:d2 fe dBAB|d2ad feef|d2 fe dBBd|cAAA feef:|

is it scottish or Irish?

Learnt from a fine 1956 home recording of Cape Breton fiddler Bill Lamey put to CD by Rounder. Liner notes say it’s a pipe tune but it is a tasty short reel on the fiddle. Lamey uses double stops liberally throughout on the A and E strings. His version is worlds apart from what I found in Ceol na Fidhle Vol.s 1 &2 and a more driving rocker as well.

Mo Chuachag Laghach https://thesession.org/tunes/2296 (Setting #2 is the Ceol na Fidhle version). Not ‘worlds apart’ exactly. I’d call them versions of the same tune.

It’s a Scottish Tune, I believe.

Definitely a duplicate. Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index lists this tune as "My Gentle Milkmaid”.

Quite right, Daniel, the title is wrong. “Jock Wilson’s Ball” is a different tune, but somewhere along the way in Cape Breton, they got mixed up. Jerry Holland also gives it the title “Jock Wilson’s Ball” in one of his collections. There are similarities, no doubt, but they are different tunes. Compare with setting 2 above.

Setting 1 and associated comments ought to be merged into https://thesession.org/tunes/2296, so as to make Nigel’s setting the correct referent for this title.

Yes Daniel, these are definitely two distinct tunes. Both are played regularly in N.W. Scotland.