Bere Meal is Cheap Again (Da) (The)

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 Also known as    Through the Wood of Fyvie
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 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Shetland/Orkney
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 Time signature    4/4
 History    SCOTLAND(Shetland/Orkney)
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BERE MEAL IS CHEAP AGAIN, THE/DA. AKA and see "Through the Wood of Fyvie." Shetlands, Shetland Reel. Shetland, Whalsay. "The Dear Meal is Cheap Again" is a similar title. Cooke (1986) gives the following text to this dance tune, in oral tradition in the Shetlands in the 1970's:

Da bere meal is cheap again,
Eight pence a peck again.