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 FROM ABERDEEN. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 or 2/2 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B (Merryweather): ABB (Barnes, Sharp). The melody was one of the "Scotch" tunes published by John Playford in the Dancing Master, 9th edition (extra Supplement), 1698.

 Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 396, p. 93. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Merryweather (Merryweather's Tunes for the English Bagpipe), 1989; p. 47. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 71.  Recorded sources:

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