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MAGGY'S WEAM(E) IS FU I TROW. AKA and see "Duncan Davidson," "Gentle Ann," "Handy Andy's Highland Fling," "Ye'll Aye be Welcome Back Again." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A risqué title from the early 18th century; wame= womb. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 85). It appears in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (1785), and in Longman and Broderip's Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances (London, 1781, p. 69). Fife player or fiddler John Fife included it twice in his c. 1780-1804 music manuscript collection (Fife was perhaps from Perthshire, but there are also references to battles in the Caribbean & the Mediterranean); the first time as "Mageys Wume. A Reel", and later as "Maggy's Wame Is Fu & True."

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Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 11, p. 4. Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 85. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1840; p. 55.

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-'''MAGGY'S WEAM(E) IS FU I TROW.''' AKA and see "[[Duncan Davidson]]," "[[Gentle Ann]]," "[[Handy Andy's Highland Fling]]," "[[Ye'll Aye be Welcome Back Again]]." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A risqué title from the early 18th century; ''wame''= womb. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 85). It appears in Aird's '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2''' (1785), and in '''Longman and Broderip's Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances''' (London, 1781, p. 69). Fife player or fiddler John Fife included it in his c. 1780-1804 music manuscript collection (Fife was perhaps from Perthshire, but there are also references to battles in the Caribbean & the Mediterranean).
+'''MAGGY'S WEAM(E) IS FU I TROW.''' AKA and see "[[Duncan Davidson]]," "[[Gentle Ann]]," "[[Handy Andy's Highland Fling]]," "[[Ye'll Aye be Welcome Back Again]]." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A risqué title from the early 18th century; ''wame''= womb. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 85). It appears in Aird's '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2''' (1785), and in '''Longman and Broderip's Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances''' (London, 1781, p. 69). Fife player or fiddler John Fife included it twice in his c. 1780-1804 music manuscript collection (Fife was perhaps from Perthshire, but there are also references to battles in the Caribbean & the Mediterranean); the first time as "Mageys Wume. A Reel", and later as "Maggy's Wame Is Fu & True."
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