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''' 'S TRUAGH A | ''' 'S TRUAGH A RIGH! MO NIGHEAN DONN''' (Alas O King! My Brown-Haired Maid). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This song was supposedly written by the Gaelic bard and adventurer Domhnall Donn (Brown Donald) for an illegitimate daughter, who paid him a visit while he was awaiting execution in 1691. In the song he dreams of a return to an idyllic life on the island of Mull. | ||
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Neil ('''The Scots Fiddle'''), 1991; No. 149, p. 192. | <font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Keith Norman MacDonald ('''The Gesto Collection of Highland Music'''), 1895; p. 5. Neil ('''The Scots Fiddle'''), 1991; No. 149, p. 192. | ||
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'S TRUAGH A RIGH! MO NIGHEAN DONN (Alas O King! My Brown-Haired Maid). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This song was supposedly written by the Gaelic bard and adventurer Domhnall Donn (Brown Donald) for an illegitimate daughter, who paid him a visit while he was awaiting execution in 1691. In the song he dreams of a return to an idyllic life on the island of Mull.