Annotation:John Charlie's Lament

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JOHN CHARLIE'S LAMENT. Canadian, Waltz or Lament. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An early composition in the 1960's by the prolific Cape Breton musician and composer John MacDougall (who is reputed to have written some 25,000 tunes).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 316, p. 113.

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