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DEATH OF MY FRIEND, THE ('Se so marbhrann mo charaid). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). F Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "This air was seemingly intended for application to the case of some individual who had lost a friend, breathing a soothing, plaintive strain, congenial with the natural feelings on such an event" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 94, p. 36.

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