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BALOW MY BOY. AKA - "Balow, my boy, lie still and sleep," "Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament." Scottish, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A ballad with ancient roots, much anthologized from the 18th century on. A version was entered into Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book, c. 1656. It also was published in William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2 (1733) and James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 1 (1760).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 1), 1760; p. 25. Thomson (Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2), 1733; p. 40.

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