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PLACE, TRUE LOVE, THINE ARM AROUND ME (Cuir a choin dìlis tharam do lamb). Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. A Gaelic air. This tune "reports the intention of an individual, seemingly long absent, to return to the braes of Lochiel, where he could enjoy the pleasure of the chase in perfection. The circumstances of the times banished so many from their native country, that it is difficult to trace the illusion" (Fraser). Stenhouse (in notes to The Scottish Musical Museum) remarks that Fraser's tune is a 'new set' of an older tune called "Auld Jew (The)," printed in Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1742), although Stenhouse sniffs: "but [Oswald] has corrupted the melody in several bars with spurious interpolations, in attempting to embellish it."

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Printed sources: Davidson (Davidson's Collection of Scottish Melody), 1860; p. 21.Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 112, p. 44. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book), 1853; p. 81.

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