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'''CADGER WATTY.''' Scottish, Air (cut time).  A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.  In the 19th century ''cadger'' came to mean a beggar or someone posing as a pedlar but actually turning out to be a beggar; but in Oswald's time it retained its original meaning of 'pedlar', derived probably from its fifteenth century meaning of 'itinerant dealer with a pack-horse'.  'Watty' is a pet form of the personal name Walter.
'''CADGER WATTY.''' Scottish, Air (cut time).  A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.  In the 19th century ''cadger'' came to mean a beggar or someone posing as a pedlar but actually turning out to be a beggar; but in Oswald's time it retained its original meaning of 'pedlar', derived probably from its fifteenth century meaning of 'itinerant dealer with a pack-horse'.  'Watty' is a pet form of the personal name Walter.

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CADGER WATTY. Scottish, Air (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In the 19th century cadger came to mean a beggar or someone posing as a pedlar but actually turning out to be a beggar; but in Oswald's time it retained its original meaning of 'pedlar', derived probably from its fifteenth century meaning of 'itinerant dealer with a pack-horse'. 'Watty' is a pet form of the personal name Walter.

Egan Life in London, 1821

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Printed sources : - James Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 12), c. 1760; p. 150.

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