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MY LOVE'S A BONNY NAITHING. AKA and see "I am a wand'ring minstrel man," "Honorable Thomas Burke," "Thomas Burke." Scottish, Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is Irish harper Turlough Carolan's "Thomas Burke, printed as "Thomas Burke" in Burk Thumoth's Twelve English and Twelve Irish Airs, e. 1745.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 8), 1760; p. 3.

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