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DAY O' DAWIE, THE. Shetland, Air (no regular metric structure). A Minor/G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBC. A version of the New Year's tune "Day Dawn (1) (Da)," although poorly remembered by the source.

Source for notated version: John Irvine (Whalsay, Shetland), recorded in 1961 [Cooke].

Printed sources: Cooke (The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles), 1986; Ex. 37, p. 90.

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