Annotation:Fy Let Us A' to the Wedding

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FY LET US A' TO THE WEDDING. AKA and see "Bridal (The)," "Blythsome Bridal (The)." Scottish, Air and Jig (9/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Very Old" (Gow, 1817). 'Fy' is an expression that can be used as an exclamation, or to mean 'come' or 'hurry'. It appears as a song in William Thomson's Orpheus Caledoneus, vol. 1 (1733) as Song 36, "Blythsome Bridal (The)," whose first line is "Fy let us a' to the bridal."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 123, p. 43. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; pp. 12-13. Thomson (Orpheus Caledoneus, vol. 1), 1733.

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