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|f_annotation='''THERE’LL NEVER BE PEACE ‘TIL JAMIE COMES HAME.''' Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor (Gow): A Minor (O’Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Published by Johnson in his '''Scots Musical Museum IV''' (1791) with words by Robert Burns.  Burns knew the tune as an old Jacobite air (called “There are few good fellows when Jamie’s awa”), but, writing in 1791 (the year of Mozart’s death), he was inspired by the just completed French Revolution. See also the related Irish song tunes “[[There's an End to My Sorrow]]” and “[[My sorrow is greater than I can tell]].” A similar Scottish air is “[[Nuair a chì thu caileag bhòidheach]].”
|f_annotation='''THERE’LL NEVER BE PEACE ‘TIL JAMIE COMES HAME.''' Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor (Gow): A Minor (O’Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Published by Johnson in his '''Scots Musical Museum IV''' (1791) with words by Robert Burns.  Burns knew the tune as an old Jacobite air (called “There are few good fellows when Jamie’s awa”), but, writing in 1791 (the year of Mozart’s death), he was inspired by the just completed French Revolution. See also the related Irish song tunes “[[There's an End to My Sorrow]]” and “[[My sorrow is greater than I can tell]].” A similar Scottish air is “[[Nuair chì thu caileag bhòideach]].”
|f_printed_sources=Gow ('''Complete Repository, Part 4'''), 1817; pp. 6-7. McGibbon ('''Scots Tunes, book III'''), 1762; pp. 86-87. O’Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. III'''), c. 1808; p. 53.
|f_printed_sources=Gow ('''Complete Repository, Part 4'''), 1817; pp. 6-7. McGibbon ('''Scots Tunes, book III'''), 1762; pp. 86-87. O’Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. III'''), c. 1808; p. 53.
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THERE’LL NEVER BE PEACE ‘TIL JAMIE COMES HAME. Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor (Gow): A Minor (O’Farrell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Published by Johnson in his Scots Musical Museum IV (1791) with words by Robert Burns. Burns knew the tune as an old Jacobite air (called “There are few good fellows when Jamie’s awa”), but, writing in 1791 (the year of Mozart’s death), he was inspired by the just completed French Revolution. See also the related Irish song tunes “There's an End to My Sorrow” and “My sorrow is greater than I can tell.” A similar Scottish air is “Nuair chì thu caileag bhòideach.”


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Printed sources : - Gow (Complete Repository, Part 4), 1817; pp. 6-7. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; pp. 86-87. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. III), c. 1808; p. 53.






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