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'''KING OF FRANCE, THE'''. AKA and see "[[Lady Doll Sinclair]]." Scottish. John Glen (1891) | '''KING OF FRANCE, THE'''. AKA and see "[[Lady Doll Sinclair]]," "[[Lady Doll Sinclair's Reel]]," "[[Lady Doll St. Clair's Reel]]." Scottish. John Glen (1891) recorded that the earliest printing of the tune under this title was in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (p. 73), however it earlier appeared in James Oswald's '''Caledonian Pocket Companion''' (vol. 8, 1760, p. 26) as "The King of France He Run a Race". Under the alternate "Doll Sinclair" titles it was printed in David Rutherford's '''Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1758''' and Robert Bremner's '''Scots Reels vol. 1'''. Northumbrian musician William Vickers entered the melody in his manuscript collection as "[[Wedding in the West]]," and Matt Seattle finds further alternate titles as "[[Lees of Luncartie]]," "[[Lees of Luncarty]]," "[[There was a wedding in the west]]," and "[[When you go to the hill take your gun]]." | ||
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KING OF FRANCE, THE. AKA and see "Lady Doll Sinclair," "Lady Doll Sinclair's Reel," "Lady Doll St. Clair's Reel." Scottish. John Glen (1891) recorded that the earliest printing of the tune under this title was in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (p. 73), however it earlier appeared in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (vol. 8, 1760, p. 26) as "The King of France He Run a Race". Under the alternate "Doll Sinclair" titles it was printed in David Rutherford's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1758 and Robert Bremner's Scots Reels vol. 1. Northumbrian musician William Vickers entered the melody in his manuscript collection as "Wedding in the West," and Matt Seattle finds further alternate titles as "Lees of Luncartie," "Lees of Luncarty," "There was a wedding in the west," and "When you go to the hill take your gun."
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