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LITTLE GOOD WIFE. Scottish, Slow Jig. One Part. A "goodwife" was once a term for the mistress of a household. The tune appears in the Panmure MS #9454, "Seventy Seven Dances, Songs and Scots Airs for Violin," c. 1675.

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Recorded sources: Flying Fish, Robin Williamson - "Legacy of the Scottish Harpers, vol. 2."




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