Annotation:Cheap Meal
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CHEAP MEAL. AKA and see "Dear Meal (The)," "Dear Meal is Cheap Again (The)," "Cairngorum," "Good Harvest," "Lucy Campbell (2)." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Gow): AAB (Kerr): AABB' (Athole). John Glen (1891) finds the tune earliest in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 39). Gow (1817) gives the alternate title "Good Harvest." See also the related "Leap Year (1)", from the Elias Howe publications.
Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 38. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 18, No. 2, p. 12. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 103.
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