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COMING THROUGH THE BROOM MY JO. AKA and see "Lord Haddo's Favorite," "What ye wha I met yestreen." Scottish, Air or Strathspey. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 25). It also appears in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion of 1760.

Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 23. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), 1810; p. 106. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion Book 8), 1760; p. 6.

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