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FAREWELL MY PRETTY WITTY PEGGY. AKA - "Farewell my Pretty Moggie." Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air was also entered into the c. 1782 music copybook of Seabrook, New Hampshire, musician Jeremiah Brown (as "Farewell My Pretty Witty Paggy").

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book II), c. 1746; p. 40. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V), 1760; p. 8 (as "Farewell my Pretty Moggie").

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