Annotation:I Can’t Conceal that I Prefer You

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I CAN'T CONCEAL THAT I PREFER YOU. AKA "Hò! cha cheilinn nach tu b'fheàrr leam." Scottish, Jig. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "This is supposed to be the composition of Neil Kennedy, Glengarry's fox hunter; the editor has not been able to learn whether he addressed the words to his sweetheart or to his gun an idea very common with Highland sportsmen" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1874; No. 206, p. 85.

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