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CUTTY'S WEDDING. Scottish, Strathspey. B Minor ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A song called "Cuttie's Wedding" was set to the tune, and appears in Robert Chambers Scottish Songs, vol. 2 (1829). The chorus goes:

Busk an go, busk an go busk an go tae Cutty's wedding
Whaurs the lassie an the lad fa widnae gang fan they were bidden?

Printed source: Galwey (Old Irish Croonauns), 1910; No. 2, p. 1. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 2, 1988; p. 8. Ochs (Clarke Tin Whistle Book). Seaforth Highlanders (Standard Settings of Pipe Music of the Seaforth Highlanders).

Recorded source: Green Linnett GLCD 1146, The Tannahill Weavers - "Capernaum" (1994).

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