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MY WIFE SHE DANG ME. Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEE. Dang = beat. Poet Robert Burns penned "Oh aye, my wife she dang me" for Johnson's Scots Musical Museum [1] (vol VI, No. 532, p. 549) in 1795. The old song was once well-known, but all that remained to Burns was the chorus and verses:

Chorus:
O aye my wife she dang me,
An' aft my wife she bang'd me,
If ye gie a woman a' her will,
Gude faith! she'll soon o'er-gang ye.

On peace an' rest my mind was bent,
And, fool I was! I married;
But never honest man's intent
Sane cursedly miscarried.
O aye my wife, &c.

Some sairie comfort at the last,
When a' thir days are done, man,
My pains o' hell on earth is past,
I'm sure o' bliss aboon, man,
O aye my wife, &c.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, Book 1), c. 1746; pp. 6-7.

Recorded sources:

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