Annotation:Wearmouth Lads

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WEARMOUTH LADS. Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Dunkeld, Scotland, fiddler Niel Gow (1727-1807) as “Colonel Robertson of Strewan’s Welcome Home.” There was a Wearmouth at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea in northern England, which became the town of Sunderland.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: S. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician No. 6: Jigs), 1982 (revised 1989, 2001); p. 5.

Recorded sources: Bash CD51, Chris Coe – “A Wiser Fool.”

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