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JOLLY PLOWMAN [2], THE. AKA - "Jolly Ploughman (The)." Scottish, Reel or Strathspey (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection. Some forty years later it had been transformed into a strathspey by the Gows.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 89. John Gow (A Favorite Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels), London, c. 1804; p. 8.

Recorded sources:

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-'''JOLLY PLOWMAN [2], THE'''. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection.
+'''JOLLY PLOWMAN [2], THE'''. AKA - "Jolly Ploughman (The)." Scottish, Reel or Strathspey (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection. Some forty years later it had been transformed into a strathspey by the Gows.
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-''Printed sources'': Bremner ('''Scots Reels'''), c. 1757; p. 89.
+''Printed sources'': Bremner ('''Scots Reels'''), c. 1757; p. 89. John Gow ('''A Favorite Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels'''), London, c. 1804; p. 8.
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