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WHAT PAIN I'VE ENDURED SINCE LAST YEAR (Gur mis hta gu cròiteach o'n uiridh). Scottish, Slow Air (9/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "This air the editor never heard but from his father; if that gentleman was composer of any in this work, it is the present, although even that, the editor cannot assert. It was, at any rate, revived and preserved by him; nay, more, he repeated extempore words, which the editor never could get a second time, and was not at liberty to urge on a subject which affected him so much the fate of an amiable brother of his, who was one of the sufferers in the Black Hole at Calcutta" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 153, p. 62.

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