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Tune Annotations:	'''FIG/FEG FOR A KISS [2], A'''. AKA and see "[[Dublin Boys (The)]]," "[[Dublin Streets]]," "[[Two in a Gig]]." Scottish, English; Jig (9/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A distanced variant of "[[Fig for a Kiss (1) (A)]]." John Glen (1891) states the earliest appearance of the tune in print is in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (appears as "A Feg for a Kiss"). Bremner's version is identical to that printed by Preston. Kennedy gives the alternate title "[[Two in a Gig]]."
Source for notated version:	copied from Preston's Selections of Reels and Country Dances (London, 1768) [O'Neill].
Printed sources:	Bremner ('''Scots Reels'''), 1757; p. 74. Kennedy ('''Fiddler's Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes'''), 1999; No. 21, p. 6. O'Neill ('''Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody'''), 1922; No. 200.
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