Annotation:O an ye were dead guidman

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O, AN YE WERE DEAD, GUIDMAN. AKA - "O Gin Ye were Dead Gudeman." AKA and see "I Wish that You were Dead Good Man," "White Cockade (1) (The)," "Watson's Scotch Measure." Scottish, Country Dance (cut time) or Air. F Major (Athole): G Major (Aird, Oswald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is "Watson's Scotch Measure" associated with a song called "O, an ye were dead gudeman" which appears in Gude and Godlie Ballates (1567).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; p. 53. Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2), 1785; No. 132, p. 49. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 4), 1760; p. 24. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 151.

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