Annotation:Lass if I Come Near You
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LASS IF I COME NEAR YOU. AKA - "Lass if I come nigh thee." Scottish, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Bayard (1981) calls this tune a "special development" of one of his seminal melodies, "Boyne Water (1)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), 1782; No. 183, p. 63. Gow (Complete Repository, Part II), 1799.
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