Annotation:Auld Robin Gray (3)
X:1 T:Auld Robin Gray [3] M:C L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Very Slow" B:James Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (Glasgow, 1788, No. 582, p. 222) N:”Humbly dedicated to the Volunteers and Defensive Bands of Great Britain and Ireland” Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G B>d|e>ged {c}B2 A>G|d2 A>B A2 B>d|e>ged B2 AG|A2B g3a| bage gedB|d>BAG A2 B>d|e>ged {c}B2 g>a|b2 B>c B2||
AULD ROBIN GRAY [3]. Scottish, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This version of "Auld Robin Gray" also appears in David Sime's Edinburgh Musical Miscellany (1792, p. 120), published in Edinburgh by W. Gordon, and in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1790, p. 256).