Another note

Note that the model for "The Ball of Kiriemuir" is "The West-Country Jigg" in the Scarce Songs 1 file on my website. It's very close to 200 years earlier. The Scots tune used for it isn't the same one used for "The Ball of Kirriemuir", however.

I ran into a song, "Hamilton Races", c 1770, in a Scots manuscript that on the whole was quite polite, but which had several verses that would fit nicely in "The Ball of Kirriemuir". The song commented on many people and their doings both at the races and at ball held after them. The tune "Hamilton Races" is in McGlashan's 'Reels', c 1781 and 1786, and I regret that I did not copy it when I had the chance.