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YELLOW WAT AND THE FOX. AKA – "Bhateur Buidhe agas an Sinnach." Irish, Air (6/8 time). E Flat Major (Clinton): G Mixolydian (Hannam). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Thomas Moore set his song "Oh! Doubt me not" to this air, published in his Irish Melodies. The tune was collected by Edward Bunting (1773–1843) and appears in his 1809 collection as "Bhateur Buidhe agas an Sinnach."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bunting (Ancient Music of Ireland), 1809; p. 19. Clinton (Gems of Ireland), 1841; No. 90, p. 45. Hannam (Irish Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1810; p. 10.

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