Annotation:Wilt Thou be My Dearie
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WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE. Scottish, Air (2/4 or whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The song by poet Robert Burns was printed in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 5 (1797,Song 470, p. 484), set to the older air "Suttor's Dochter (The)" AKA "Cobbler's Daughter (The)" printed in 1761 in Edinburgh by Neil Stewart.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), 1797; p. 53.
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