Annotation:Water is Wide (The)

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WATER IS WIDE, THE. AKA and see “O Waly Waly.” American, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. A favorite American folksong [Roud 87; Child 204] version of the old Scots ballad tune “O Waly Waly.”

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See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
See the excellent discussion of the song's history at Jürgen Kloss's Just Another Tune [2]
See the entry at Mainly Norfolk [3]

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