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Tune Annotations:	'''WE'RE NO VERY FOU, BUT WE'RE GAYLY YET.''' AKA – "[[Bide ye yet]]," "[[Laird of Skene's Favorite]]." Scottish, Air and Jig ("Slowly"). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song appears in 18th century songsters such as '''The Blackbird''' (1771) and '''The Gold-finch''' (1777). See song version at "[[We're no very fu' but we're gaily yet]]."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:	Carlin ('''Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 379. Herd ('''Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, vol. 2'''), 1776; p. 121. Gow ('''Complete Repository, Part 3'''), 1806; p. 11. Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 620. Manson ('''Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1'''), 1844; p. 55.
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