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Thread #106161   Message #2191250
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
11-Nov-07 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Derwentwater's Farewell
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Derwentwater's Farewell
Having said that about the other two tunes in the DT, I might have to revise my opinion!

I've just looked at Hogg's Jacobite Relics where Derwentwater's Farewell appears as Lord Derwentwater's Goodnight To the foregoing Air. The words there are virtually identical to those in the Minstrelsy ("The last time I mounted thee" and "six maids of fair Tynedale" seem to be the only differences).

The foregoing Air is in fact for a version of Derwentwater. Although the notation seems a bit strange, the last part of the tune is familiar from Derwentwater's Farewell, though not the first part. When I decide what the notation's meant to be, I'll post the tune from there!.

Mick