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GUR EUTROM AN T' AISEAG (Light/Joyful is the Ferry/Crossing). Scottish, Air (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The air was first printed in Patrick McDonald's A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs (Edinburgh, 1784), whose contents he characterized as "North Highland Airs."

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Printed sources: MacKillop (The Scottish Guitar: 40 Scottish Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar), 2011. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book, vol. 1), 1853; p. 170. Patrick McDonald (A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs), 1784. Rideout (Soft May Morn: Scottish Fiddle), 1997.

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