Cock o' the North

"Cock o' the North" was the nickname of the Duke of Gordon, whose lands covered much of the north of Scotland. The tune is far older than the title. John Playford printed it in his Dancing Master in 1674 as "Jumping Joan," and in England it was also "Joan's Placket," a name William Chappell traced to a 1667 entry in Samuel Pepys' diary.

The Gordon Highlanders took it as their quick march. Piper George Findlater is said to have kept playing it after being shot through both legs at the storming of the Dargai Heights in 1897, and he received the Victoria Cross. In Ireland and Newfoundland it is also called "Auntie Mary."