Annotation:Lachlann Dubh
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LACHLAN WITH THE JET BLACK HAIR (Lachlann Dubh). Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "The editor took down this air from the singing of Mrs. Campbell, wife of the Reverend Mr. Campbell of the Inverness Royal Academy, who sings a number of Gaelic verses to it with great taste" (Fraser).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 115, p. 45.
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