Annotation:Earl Douglas's Lament

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EARL DOUGLAS'S LAMENT. Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is a close variant of the Gaelic air "Daft Robin" or "Robie donna gorrach/Robaidh donn gòrach/Robaidh tha thu gòrach," and a member of the great family of airs that also includes "Todlin' hame," "My Ain Fireside," "Johnny Armstrong," "Carronside," "Maid of Selma (The)," "Days o' Langsyne (The)." In Ireland variants are known as "Lame Yellow Beggar (The)," "Wild Geese (The)," "Bonnie Portmore," "Boys of Kilenny (The)," "Meeting of the Waters (The)." Highland members of the family are "Laithean a dh' aom (Na)" and "A' Chuairt Shamraidh" [Malcolm MacFarlane, The Celtic Monthly, vol. 2, Feb. 1894, p. 88]

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 7), 1760; p. 30.

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