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MODE O' WOOING, THE. English, Air (4/4 time). England, Northumberland. D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.
Young men, when that they do arrive
Between a score and twenty-five,
There's scarely one that you will find,
But's either more or less inclined
To gang away a wooing, a woop, woo, wooing,
To gang away a wooing, amang the maidens fair. .... ... (Bruce & Stokoe)
See also "New Way of Getting Bairns (The)," whose title shows the same sentiment (although the music differs).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; pp. 104-106.
Recorded sources: