Annotation:Shall I wasting in despair
X:1 T:Shall I Wasting in Despair M:C L:1/8 S:Chappell – Popular Music of the Olden Times (1859) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F c3d c2G2 | AG FE D4 | F3F B2G2 | c2 BA G4 | G3G A2F2 | F2B2A3B | cB AG F2E2 | D3C C4 || G2 EF G2C2 | F2G2 A4 | F3G AB c2 | E2F2 G4 | G2 GA BG Bc | d2 cB A4 | A2F2 c3A | G3F F4 ||
SHALL I WASTING IN DESPAIR. AKA and see “What care I how fair she be.” English, Ballad Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This early seventeenth century ballad Chappell (1859) found in a MS in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh.