Annotation:We're no very fu' but we're gaily yet

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WE'RE NO' VERY FU' BUT WE'RE GAILY YET. AKA - "We're Gaily Yet." AKA and see "Up with Ailey." Scottish, Air (6/8 & 9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "We're no very fu' but we're gaily yet" is a song that manages to be both convivial and mildly bawdy at the same time, printed in Calliope (1788, Song CCLII) and similar 18th century songsters. The lyric in Calliope goes:

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See note for "annotation:I cannot win at her for her big belly for more.

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