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JOHN McALPIN(E). Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Stewart-Robertson): AABB (Kerr). The song "The Rattlin' Bog" (Heigh ho, the rattlin' bog) is sung to this tune. In Ireland the air is used as a march, a song air and a Sliabh Luachra polka.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880; Set 1, No. 3, p. 3. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 3.

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