Beauty charming fair and young
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X:1
T:Beauty, charming, fair and young
T:Ribhinn àlainn eibhinn og
M:C
L:1/8
R:Slow Air
S:Fraser Collection (1874)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Bmin
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(Fd)(cd) (fe)dc|f2B2^A2^GF|f>edf e>dce|f2B2^A2 (GF)|E2E2F2^A2| B2 B^A [D4B4]||
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BEAUTY, CHARMING, FAIR AND YOUNG (Ribhinn àlainn eibhinn og). Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This tune "is the air of Robert Donn, the Sutherland's poet's song, to Miss Sally Grant, and is in his printed volumes of Gaelic songs and poems; the air is given as sung by the editor's father" (Fraser).
Printed source: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1874; No. 170, p. 69.
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