Annotation:I Cannot Win at Her for Her Big Belly

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I CANNOT WIN AT HER FOR HER BIG BELLY. Scottish, Air or Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The meldoy was first printed by London publisher Henry Playford in his Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes (1700, p. 60). I also appears in Dublin publishers John & William Neal’s Scotch Tunes (c. 1724).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V), 1760; p. 6.

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