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Annotation:Lennox's Love
X:1 T:Lanox [sic] Love T:Lennox Love M:C| L:1/8 S:William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection K:G B|G/G/G BG cABG|AD D/D/D =FGAF|G/G/G BA cGBG|egdg BGG:| |:g|dgBg A/A/A g2|dgBg dgBg|a/g/f/e/ gc A/A/A g2|egdg BGG:|]
LENNOX'S LOVE. AKA and see "Lanox love," "Lennox's love to Blantyre," "Milkmaids of Blantyre (The)," "Three milkmaids of Blantyre," "Wren." English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A different tune than "Lenox Love to Blantyre." It was published in David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1760, p. 75). A variant of the melody was used as the vehicle for the song "The Wren" in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 5 (1797, p. 497). Robert Bremner published a nearly identical version in his Scots Reels (1757) under the title "Milkmaids of Blantyre (The)."
