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'''FOR THE LACK OF GOLD (She Left Me)'''. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. O'Farrell lists the | '''FOR THE LACK OF GOLD (She Left Me)'''. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. O'Farrell lists the song's provenance as Scotch. It also appears in the (James) '''Gillespie Manuscript of Perth''' (1762, p. 40), James Oswald's '''Caledonian Pocket Companion''' (vol. 3, p. 2), and Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' (vol. 2, p. 171). The song begins: | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
FOR THE LACK OF GOLD (She Left Me). Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. O'Farrell lists the song's provenance as Scotch. It also appears in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1762, p. 40), James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (vol. 3, p. 2), and Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (vol. 2, p. 171). The song begins:
For lake of gold she's left me oh!
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; pp. 90-91. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1); c. 1805; p. 75.
Recorded sources: