Annotation:For the Love of Gean
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FOR THE LOVE OF GEAN. AKA - "For the Love of Jean." AKA and see "Jockey Said to Jenny." Scottish, Air (3/2 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. The song appears in Alan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellaney (1724), with the letter 'Z' attached to it, indicating that it was old and the author was unknown. However, Stenhouse could find no earlier occurance of the music other than in Music for the Scots Songs in the Tea Table Miscellaney. A version is in the second edition of Orpheus Caledonius (1733) as "For the Love of Jean,"
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Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 7), 1760; p. 15.
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