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WE ARE ALL FORESAKEN FOR WANT OF SILLER. English, Slip Jig. England, Northumberland. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Matt Seattle finds a version of this tune in London publisher John Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances, and notes a resemblance to "Hey Ca' Thro'" in passages.

Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [1] (Northumberland) [Seattle].

Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 321. Walsh (Caledonian Country Dances, vol. 3), 1749; No. 50.

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