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AIR XLI. My Wife's a wanton Wi Thing.

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AIR XLI. My Wife's a wanton Wi Thing. - staff notation
X:342
T:AIR XLI. My Wife's a wanton Wi Thing.
B:Joseph Mitchell: "The Highland Fair" (1731)
Z:Jack Campin <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/jack.html>
N:there's no natural sign in bar 4 in the book, but there is a
N:sharp - presumably the previous natural was meant to persist
M:6/4
L:1/4
K:D
      d2A (B/c/)dA|d3 A2B   |=c>dc cGE|=c3 C2
^c   |d2A  B/c/ dA|d3 A2G   | FDF  ECE| D3-D2||
 F/G/|A>BA FDF    |A3 F2E/F/| G>AG ECE| G3 E2
 F/G/|A>BA FDF    |A3 a2g   | fdf  ece| d3-d2|]
% At this point in the action a drunk sings fragments of songs with
% their original words.  The words quoted are (in full):
% Oe'r the Hills and far away...
% Wou'd they had not been,
% Or we had never seen
% Such a parcel of Rogues in the Nation...
% Saw you not my Maggy?
% Saw you not my Maggy?
% Saw you not my Maggy?
% Coming over the Lee?...

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