Annotation:Jenny Drinks Nae Water

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JENNY DRINKS NAE WATER. Scottish, Scottish Measure or Country Dance (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in the Skene Manuscript (c. 1615-20). Presumably Jenny drinks whiskey instead.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; p. 5 (appears as "Janie Drinks nae Water". Various dates are given for the volume, from 1778 to 1781). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 149.

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