Annotation:Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land

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 GIVE ME A LASS WITH A LUMP OF LAND. English, Irish; Air and Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See the related "Butcher's March (2)." The air "Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land" appears in J. Mitchell's stage production The Highland Fair, or the Union of the Clans (1731), and in the opera Calista (1731), a scandalous expose of the illicit affair of Lady Catherine, penned by an anonymous author. "Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land" was printed in vol. 6 of John Watts' Musical Miscellany the same year.  Source for notated version: copied from James Aird's Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1782-97) [O'Neill]  Printed sources: Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; Addenda. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 21. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 122.  Recorded sources:

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