Annotation:O She's Comical

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O SHE'S COMICAL. AKA and see "O but Ye be Merry." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Gow, Skye): ABB' (Athole, Kerr). A double-tonic reel, "Very old" (Gow, Skye). Older versions go under the title "O but Ye be Merry."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 404. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 3), 1806; p. 22. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880’s ; No. 6, p. 4. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 22. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 8.

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