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PARCEL OF ROGUES [1]. AKA - "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation." Scottish, Air. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Scottish poet Robert Burns fashioned famous words to the preexisting tune, and his song is published in Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum. Bayard (1981) thought the melody a version of “Boyne Water (1).”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book II), c. 1746; p. 54.

Recorded sources: Steeleye Span – “Parcel of Rogues.”

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