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MILLER'S WIFE O' BLAYDON, THE. English, Air and Pipe Tune (4/4 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "'The Miller's Wife o' Blaydon' is a pipe tune of the later date, probably written about a century ago, when reels began to be fashionable and popular at all assemblies for dancing in the north" (Bruce & Stokoe).

The miller's wife o' Blaydon,
The miller's wife o' Blaydon,
Sair she bang'd her ain gudeman
For kissing o' the maiden.
Yet aye the miller sings and swears,
Though kissing he'd had plenty,
For one kiss o' that bonny mouth
He'd freely give up twenty.
The miller's wife, &c. ... ... (Stokoe)

Source for notated version: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 169. Stokoe (Songs and Ballads of Northern England), 1883.

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