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'''FAREWELL MY PRETTY WITTY PEGGY'''. AKA - "Farewell my Pretty Moggie." Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The earliest appearance of the air is in Northumbrian musician Henry Atkinson's c. 1694 music manuscript collection under the almost inscrutable title "Bonnay Wattored (Wallored) Meggey," although the tune is a cohesive version of the air later printed by McGibbon and Oswald under more understandable titles. The air was also entered into the c. 1782 music copybook of Seabrook, New Hampshire, musician Jeremiah Brown (as "Farewell My Pretty Witty Paggy"). | '''FAREWELL MY PRETTY WITTY PEGGY'''. AKA - "Bonnay Wattored Meggey," "Farewell my Pretty Moggie." Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The earliest appearance of the air is in Northumbrian musician Henry Atkinson's c. 1694 music manuscript collection under the almost inscrutable title "Bonnay Wattored (Wallored) Meggey," although the tune is a cohesive version of the air later printed by McGibbon and Oswald under more understandable titles. The air was also entered into the c. 1782 music copybook of Seabrook, New Hampshire, musician Jeremiah Brown (as "Farewell My Pretty Witty Paggy"). | ||
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FAREWELL MY PRETTY WITTY PEGGY. AKA - "Bonnay Wattored Meggey," "Farewell my Pretty Moggie." Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The earliest appearance of the air is in Northumbrian musician Henry Atkinson's c. 1694 music manuscript collection under the almost inscrutable title "Bonnay Wattored (Wallored) Meggey," although the tune is a cohesive version of the air later printed by McGibbon and Oswald under more understandable titles. The air was also entered into the c. 1782 music copybook of Seabrook, New Hampshire, musician Jeremiah Brown (as "Farewell My Pretty Witty Paggy").
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book II), c. 1746; p. 40. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V), 1760; p. 8 (as "Farewell my Pretty Moggie").
Recorded sources: