Annotation:Had I the Wyte
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HAD I THE WYTE/WIGHT. AKA - "Had I the Wate she bade me." AKA and see "Kail and Knockit Corn," "Bob of Fettercairn (The)," "Newburn Lads" (Northumberland). Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The title is Scottish and appears in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 7 (Edinburgh, 1760). A song to the air, also called "Had I the Wyte She Bad Me," was printed in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 5 (1797, pp. 427-428).
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Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 7), 1760; p. 20.
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