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MY DEARIE AN THOU DIE. AKA - "My Deary, If Thou Die," "My Dearie an Ye Die." Scottish, Air (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The melody is related to "Lea Rig (The)" and "My Own Kind Dearie." Bruce Olson finds it listed (as "My Dearie if Thou Die") in the Leyden Lyra Viol Manuscript from around 1692 (p./No. 12); somewhat later, it can be found in Alexander Stuart's Musick for Allan Ramsey's Collection of Scots Songs (1724) and in the Adam Craig collection (1730) in a march-like setting. Vocal settings appear in Ramsey's ballad opera The Devil of a Duke, or Trapolin's Vagaries (1733), William Thomson's Orpheus Caledoneus, vol. 2 (1733), Sime's Edinburgh Miscellany (1793) and Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1 (1787).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 190, p. 70.

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