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JOCKIE BLYTH AND GAY. Scottish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in several old publications, including James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 1 (c. 1743, pp. 2-3), Francis Peacock's Fifty Favourite Scotch Airs For a Violin, German-Flute and Violoncello (London, 1762, p. 13), and Oswald's Curious Collection of Scots Tunes (1740). It was also entered into the 1782 music manuscript book of musician Jeremiah Brown (Seabrook, N.H.).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, Book 1), c. 1762; p. 20.

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