Annotation:I Wish My Love Were in a Myre

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I WISH MY LOVE WERE IN A MIRE. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune also appears, labeled a 'new set', in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), and it was entered into the music manuscript collection of James Ballantine (1770, Peeblesshire).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; p. 84. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6), 1760; p. 9.

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