Annotation:My Peggy is a Young Thing
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MY PEGGY IS A YOUNG THING. English, Air (whole time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The song "My Peggy is a young thing" was published by Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) in his Gentle Shepherd (1725), a "pastoral comedy."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 133, p. 47.
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