Annotation:Mo ghille guanach

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MO GHILLE GUANACH (My thoughtless lad). Scottish, Air (4/4 time). G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. The lyric, from Jane Fraser's (Raasay) 1812 manuscript begins:

Mo ghille guanach hug ìri òro
Mo ghille guanach ho ró bha hì,
Fhleasgaich uasail an leadain dualaich
Tha mi fo ghruaim bhon a dh'fhàg thu 'n tìr.

'S ann Didòmhnaich a' dol don chlachan
A ghabh mi beachd ort am measg nan ceud,
Ge b'e gòraich e na faoineas,
'N sin cheangail gaol sinn an snaim nach gèill.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Morison (Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 2), c. 1882; No. 8, p. 4.

Recorded sources:

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