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LEWIS GORDAN. AKA - "Lewie Gordon." Scottish, "Very Slow" Strathspey or Air. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (ten bars). Glen traces the tune to 1783 and believes it to have been borrowed from "Tarry Woo.'" Oh, send Lewis Gordon hame
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Glen Collection, 1900; p. 84. Gow (Complete Repository), 1799; vol. 1, p. 2. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 126 (appears as "Lewie Gordon"). Johnson (Scots Musical Museum), 1783-1803; vol. 1, No. 86. Smith (Scottish Minstrel), 1820-24, vol. 1; p. 44.
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