Annotation:Fair Donald
X:1 T:Domhnull Ban T:Fair Donald M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"With Gaiety" B:Celtic Melodies, Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, B:Pipe-Reels, and Cainntearachd, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, c. 1830, No. 5, p. 3) N:"Selected and Arranged by a Highlander." The editors have been N:identified as Finlay Dunn and George Farquhar Graham Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C B|c>c d>c|c>c dA|c>c d>d|g>f eA|c>c d>c|BG {G}!fermata!g>f|| "Chorus" eA AG|A>B c>A|.A<.G .G<.E|.E<.G A>B| c>G E2|e>d eA|.A<.G .G<.E|.E<.G Ac|B>G A||
FAIR DONALD. AKA - "Domhnull Ban" Scottish, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in the first volume of Celtic Melodies, Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, Pipe-Reels, and Cainntearachd, published about 1830 in Edinburgh, with pieces "Selected and Arranged by a Highlander." The anonymous editor(s) are thought to be George Farquhar Graham, with some settings contributed by Finlay Dunn.
