Annotation:When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun
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WHEN YOU GO TO THE HILL TAKE YOUR GUN. AKA and see "Four and Twenty Highlandmen," "Lees of Luncarty (The)." Scottish, Strathspey. G Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune first appears as a reel in David Young's 1734 music manuscript collection as "Four and Twenty Highlandmen."
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Printed sources: Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 3), 1885; p. 277.
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