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X:1 T:Sleepy Maggy M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion Book 10 (1760, p. ) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bmin f2 Bb fBde|f2 Bb eAce|Tf2 Bb fBde|(f/e/f/g/) af eAce:| |:fBdB fBde|fBdB cAce|fBdB fBde|(f/e/f/g/) af eAce:| Bb b2 afdf|Bb b2 aecA|Bbba fbaf|aa (b/a/g/f/) eAce:| |:BBdB fBbB|BBdB cAaA|BBdB fBbf|aa (b/a/g/f/) eAce:|]



SLEEPY MAGGY. AKA and see "Sleepy Maggie (1)", "Sleepy Maggie (2)." Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB' (Oswald): AABBAABBC (Stewart-Robertson): AABBCCDDEEFFTTHHIIJJKKLLMM (Young/MacFarlane). The reel appears with numerous variation sets in Scottish musician and dancing master David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740, No. 27). See extensive entry at "Sleepy Maggie."


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Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 117.  Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion Book 10), 1760; p. Robert Riddell (Collection of Scotch Galwegian Border Tunes), 1794; p. 34. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884;






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