Hard is my fate.

X: 125
T: Hard is my fate.
T: Nach truadh mo chas.
R: air
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.59 #3
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The 2nd strain has initial repeat but no final repeat symbol; not fixed.
M: C
L: 1/8
Q: "Slow & Plaintive"
K: Bb
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% Voice 1 reformatted for 2 12-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
B>c |!p!\
{Bc}d2F2 F2d2 | ("_>.."dc)("_>.."cB) B2 B>c |"_cres" {Bc}d2G2 G2c2 | ("_>.."BA)("_>.."GF) [F2D2] (B>c) ||\
!p! {Bc}d2F2 F2d2 | ("_>.."dc)("_>.."cB) B2 B>c | "_>.."{Bc}d3G "_>.."{AB}c3A | [B6D6] ::
(D>E) |!p! F3D "_<.."B3c | (d/c/)B/A/ (G/F/)E/D/ E3D |"_cres"C3D E3F | (FE)(ED) [D2B,2] z(d/e/) ||\
!p! f3d b3c' | (d'/c'/)b/a/ (g/f/)e/d/ "_<.."e3[fd] | ("_>.."[g3e3][fd]) "_>..."[f3d3][AF] | [B6D6] |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z2 |!p!\
Bdfb B4 | f2ab d2z2 |"_cres" zEGB e2=e2 | f2F2 fedc ||!p! Bdfb B4 |
f2a2 b2z2 | Bcde f=efF | Bdfb G2 :: z2 |!p! B2b2 d2f2 | b2B2 c2B2 |"^cres" A3B c3d |
dccB B2z2 ||!p! [b2d'2f'2][b2d'2f'2] [b2d'2f'2][a2c'2f'2] | [b4d'4f'4] fgab | egab fgaf | B6 |]
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI_abc1/0005
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI_abc2/0005

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