Annotation:Over the Moor to Maggie (3)

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OVER THE MOOR TO MAGGIE [3]. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A melody by this name is contained in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth, but the earliest printing is in Alexander Stuart's Musick for Allan Ramsey's Collection of Scots Songs (Edinburgh, 1724).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; No. 192, p. 72. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 7), 1760; p. 16.

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