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Thread #33695   Message #451365
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
28-Apr-01 - 10:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tinker's Wedding / Tinklers' Waddin'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tinker's Wedding
I may as well add a link to a midi of Gow's tune (decorations omitted for the sake of clarity).  It is, of course, not even slightly related to the two songfiles in the DT named confusingly "Fareweill Tae Whisky" and "Farewell To Whisky", both of which are slight variants of the song usually called "Johnny My Man".  Farewell to Whisky is also well-known in tradition in the North of Ireland, where for some reason it's played as a cheerful dance tune.  Gow intended it to be played "very slow and pathetic".

Farewell To Whisky

Malcolm