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I HAE SEEN THE ROSES BLAW. AKA and see "O I Hae Seen the Roses Blaw." English, Air (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See the Pennsylvania collected "Oho Oho I've Found You Out," for a version of this tune in the Americas.

O! I hae seen the roses blaw,
The heather bloom, the broom and a',
The lily spring as white as snaw,
With all their native splendour.


Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; pp. 84–85.

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