Annotation:Jesse the Flower of Dunblane

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 JESSE THE FLOWER OF DUNBLANE. Scottish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. O'Neill (1922) says: "Early in the nineteenth centtury, this song was composed by a modest weaver, Robert Tannahill of Paisley, and was set to an alleged ancient Scottish melody by Robert A. Smith author of the Irish Minstrel, and the Scottish Minstrel. According to Farquhar Graham, editor of Wood's Songs of Scotland, not a few of the airs in the latter work were composed by Smith himself. Whatever the origin of the above melody may have been it has a decidedly Gaelic tonality."  Source for notated version: copied from Wood's Songs of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1848) [O'Neill].  Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922.  Recorded sources:

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