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None left at home but Wife and Bairn.
Found in AMHSI_abc2.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 211
T: None left at home but Wife and Bairn.
T: Gun duine aig a bhaile.
R: jig
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" p.97 #1
Z: 2022 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
Q: "Moderate"
K: F
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% Voice 1 reformatted for 2 12-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
f/d/ |\
c<Ac Tf2g | a>gf fed | cAA ~A2d/f/ |"_cresc" c<Ac Tf2g ||\
{fg}a>gf fcA | AGG G2f/>d/ |!p! c<Ac Tf2g | a>gf fed ||\
cAA ~A2c |"_cres" (A/B/c)c (fa)g | (fa)g fdc | AGG G2 |]
c |!p! (Ac).d (Ac).d | (fd)c Acd | cAA ~A2c |"_cres"(Ac).d (Ac).d ||\
fdc Acd | AGG ~G2c |!p! (Ac).d (Ac).d | fdc Acd ||\
cAA ~A2c |"_cresc"(A/B/c)c (fa)g | (fa)g fdc | AGG G2 |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z |\
[f3c'3] [f3c'3] | [f3c'3] [f3d'3] | [f3c'3] [f2c'2]z |"_cres"[f3c'3] [f3c'3] ||\
[f3c'3] [f3c'3] | [c3c'3] [c2c'2]z |!p![f3c'3] [f3c'3] | [f3c'3] [f3d'3] ||
[f3c'3] [f3c'3] |"_cres"[f3c'3] [f3c'3] | [f3c'3] [f3c'3] | [c3c'3] [c2c'2] |]\
z |!p!\
[f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z | [f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z | [f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z |"_cres" [f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z || [f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z |
[c3c'3] [c3c'3] |!p! [f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z | [f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z ||\
[f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z |"_cres" [f2c'2]z [f2c'2]z | [f3c'3] [f3c'3] | [c3c'3] [c2c'2] |]
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