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O DEAR, I WISH I HAD NOT COME HERE. American, Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was published around 1805 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by John Clarkson Jr. in a single-sheet entitled American Tunes No. 1, Arranged for the Piano Forte. Other tunes Clarkson's issues (on four separate sheets) are "The "Whine;" "Mammy's gone away, and Daddy's dead for ever;" "Bow the boat ashore;" "Ricket's Dance;" "The Brook;" "Fire in the Mountains;" "Yanky Doodle;" "Spirit of France;" "Tobacco Hill;" "Corn Planter (The)," "Sometimes drunk and sometimes sober;" "Jump up, Joe;" "President Jefferson's Favourite;" "Hunt the Squirrel;" "The Rummage;" and "Thump the Devil."

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