Annotation:Maggy's Weame is Fu I Trow
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MAGGY'S WEAME IS FU I TROW. AKA and see "Duncan Davidson," "Gentle Ann," "Handy Andy's Highland Fling," "Ye'll Aye be Welcome Back Again." Scottish, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A risqué title from the early 18th century; wame= womb. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 85).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 11, p. 4. Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 85. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1840; p. 55.
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