Annotation:For Old Lang Gine My Joe

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FOR OLD LANG GINE MY JOE. Scottish, Air or Country Dance (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune appears in London publisher Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance tunes. The title is probably an idiosyncratic spelling; gine should be syne.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Playford (A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes), 1700; No. 26, p. 11.

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