Issue 3106: source of title Gang the Same Gate

Object

Gang the Same Gate (Dance)

Submitter

Bruce Herbold (bherbold)

Assigned to

Murrough Landon

Priority

Normal

Disposition

Fixed

Description

Might append to ‘extra info’ that Milton Levy dance names (at least Abbot of Unreason as well as this one) draw on the writings of Sir Walter Scott. In The Heart of Mid Lothian a prisoner is bewailing his fate… "… in the book of Job: “He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone. And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.”

“Isna that ower true a doctrine?” said the prisoner “Isna my crown, my honour, removed? And what am I but a poor, wasted, wan-thriven tree, dug up by the roots, and flung out to waste in the highway, that man and beast may tread it under foot? I thought o’ the bonny bit them that our father rooted out o’ the yard last May, when it had a’ the flush o’ blossoms on it; and then it lay in the court till the beasts had trod them a’ to pieces wi’ their feet. I little thought, when I was wae for the bit silly green bush and its flowers, that I was to gang the same gate mysell.”

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