Annotation:O! The Weary Waters of Tyne

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O! THE WEARY WATERS OF TYNE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is from a Northumbrian piper's MS of about 1816. The river Tyne divides England and Scotland in the west.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; p. 22

Recorded sources:

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