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MY LOVE ALAS IS DEAD AND GONE. Scottish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title appears in a list of Scottish songs and ballads sent to a correspondent, Mr. Paton, in 1795 by antiquarian Joseph Ritson.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 7), 1760; p. 33.

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