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FOUR AND TWENTY HIGHLANDMEN. AKA and see "When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun." Scottish, Reel. The melody appears in the Drummond Castle Manuscript, 1734, inscribed "A Collection of the best Highland Reels written by David Young, W.M. & Accomptant." The MS, in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle, is sometimes called the "Duke of Perth MS."

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