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FOR THE LOVE OF GEAN. AKA - "For the Love of Jean." Scottish, Air (3/2 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. The song, as "For the Love of Jean, appears in Alan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellaney (1724), with the letter 'Z' attached to it, indicating that it was old and the author was unknown. However, Stenhouse could find no earlier occurance of the music other than in Music for the Scots Songs in the Tea Table Miscellaney. Later versions of the song were published as "Jocky and Jenny" or "Jockey Said to Jenny."
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Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 8), 1760; p. 15.
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