Annotation:How can I be sad on my wedding day?

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 HOW CAN I BE SAD ON MY WEDDING-DAY? Scottish, Air. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The tune was used by Allan Ramsay in his ballad opera The Gentle Shepherd published in 1725 (but not performed until later), which predated John Gay's famous Beggar's Opera by three years. The air was also used in Mitchell's ballad opera The Highland Fair, or the Union of the Clans (London, 1731). It also appears in the Scottish MacFarlane manuscript.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion), vol. V, 1760; No. 12.  Recorded sources:

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