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DID YOU SEE THE BLACK ROGUE? Irish, Air (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. Bayard sees this air from Belfast collector Edward Bunting's (1773-1843) 1840 collection (The Ancient Music of Ireland, 1840, pp. 4-5) as a simplified version of the Northumbrian melody "Rock and a Wee Pickle Tow."

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Printed sources: Bunting (Ancient Music of Ireland), 1840; pp. 4-5.

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