Annotation:Rashes (1) (The)
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RASHES, THE. AKA and see "Playing Amang the Rashes," "Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation," "Wee German Lairdie," "Wha the Deil hae We Gotten for a King?" "Boyne Water (1)," "Cavalcade of the Boyne," "When the King came o'er the water." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was entered into the 1788 music manuscript book of flute player Ensign Thomas Molyneaux (6th Regt.) of Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
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Printed sources:
Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 26.
Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 5), 1760; p. 26.
Graham & Wood (Popular Songs of Scotland), 1887; pp. 76–77 (as "When the King Comes Owre the Water").
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